The quotations of

Gloria Steinem

American feminist activist and journalist

1934–2026

10 quotes, most often on Women.

In my heart, I think a woman has two choices: Either she’s a feminist or a masochist.
- Women
Writing is the only thing that, when I do it, I don’t feel I should be doing something else.
- Writing
America is an enormous frosted cupcake in the middle of millions of starving people.
- America
Any woman who chooses to behave like a full human being should be warned that the armies of the status quo will treat her as something of a dirty joke. That’s their natural and first weapon. She will need her sisterhood.
“Sisterhood” in New York (20 December 1971), p. 49
- Women
However sugarcoated and ambiguous, every form of authoritarianism must start with a belief in some group’s greater right to power, whether that right is justified by sex, race, class, religion or all four.
“If Hitler Were Alive, Whose Side Would He Be On?” in M.S. magazine (October-November 1980)
- Government
- Power
Women may be the one group that grows more radical with age.
Outrageous Acts and Everyday Rebellions (1983), p. 377
- Age
- Women
Like art, revolutions come from combining what exists into what has never existed before.
Moving Beyond Words (1994), Part 4: The Masculinization of Wealth, p. 196
- Art
- Change
God may be in the details, but the goddess is in the questions. Once we begin to ask them, there’s no turning back.
Moving Beyond Words (1994), Part 6: Doing Sixty, p. 270
- Thinking
We are talking about a society in which there will be no roles other than those chosen, or those earned. We are really talking about humanism.
“Address to the Women of America” (10 July 1971)
- Freedom
- Women
As the little boy said when asked if he wanted to be a lawyer like his mother, “Oh no, that’s women’s work.” Logic has nothing to do with oppression.
Outrageous Acts and Everyday Rebellions (1983), p. 367
- Women
- Work

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