Gloria Steinem Quotes & Sayings (Page 7)

“To say 'radical feminist' is only a way of indicating that I believe the sexual caste system is a root of race and class and other divisions.”

“Whatever each individual woman is facing - only she knows her biggest challenge.”

“I'd like to be played as a child by Natalie Wood. I'd have some romantic scenes as Audrey Hepburn and have gritty black-and-white scenes as Patricia Neal.”

“For much of the female half of the world, food is the first signal of our inferiority. It lets us know that our own families may consider female bodies to be less deserving, less needy, less valuable.”

“Monotheism makes me grouchy. I don't trust any religion that makes God look like one of the ruling class. I guess I'm a pagan or an animist.”

“The most hurtful thing is not what comes from our adversaries, it's what comes from our friends.”

“We must begin to shift the emphasis of teen-age pregnancy to teen-age boys.”

“Pop culture shapes our ideas of what is normal and what our dreams can be and what our roles are. Politics, of course, decides how the power and the money in the country is distributed. Both are equally important, and each affects the other.”

“The danger of the Internet is cocooning with the like-minded online - of sending an email or Twitter and confusing that with action - while the real corporate and military and government centers of power go right on.”

“Law and justice are not always the same.”