Gloria Steinem Quotes & Sayings (Page 2)

“If women are supposed to be less rational and more emotional at the beginning of our menstrual cycle when the female hormone is at its lowest level, then why isn't it logical to say that, in those few days, women behave the most like the way men behave all month long?”

“God may be in the details, but the goddess is in the questions. Once we begin to ask them, there's no turning back.”

“I've yet to be on a campus where most women weren't worrying about some aspect of combining marriage, children, and a career. I've yet to find one where many men were worrying about the same thing.”

“If you ask men about their body image, they will tell you they look better than they do. And if you ask a woman, she'll tell you she looks worse.”

“Gender is probably the most restricting force in American life.”

“We've begun to raise daughters more like sons... but few have the courage to raise our sons more like our daughters.”

“A liberated woman is one who has sex before marriage and a job after.”

“The first resistance to social change is to say it's not necessary.”

“Anger is energising. The opposite of anger is depression, which is anger turned inward.”

“Obviously, there is much similarity among the challenges of transgender people and all women - from health care to harassment to discrimination in the workplace.”