Gloria Steinem Quotes

Planning ahead is a measure of class. The rich and even the middle class plan for future generations, but the poor can plan ahead only a few weeks or days.

The future depends entirely on what each of us does every day a movement is only people moving.

All women, and men of color - we were owned like tables and chairs. We spent a hundred years getting a legal identity as human beings. That's a big thing.

If you say, I'm for equal pay, that's a reform. But if you say. I'm a feminist, that's a transformation of society.

A gender-equal society would be one where the word 'gender' does not exist: where everyone can be themselves.

The surest way to be alone is to get married.

If the shoe doesn't fit, must we change the foot?

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

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.

It is more rewarding to watch money change the world than watch it accumulate.

If technology and medicine are used by women to have children or not to have children or to have healthier children - that's one thing. But if it's used to say, 'You're not a real woman unless you have a child; therefore, take all these dangerous hormones

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

Perfect is boring: Beauty is irregular.

I was never against marriage per se. Before feminism, I didn't think you had any choice. In fact, for a long time I always assumed I would get married. I just didn't see any marriages I wanted to emulate, so I kept putting it off.

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