More - 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.

Gloria Steinem

 American Activist Class

There are really not many jobs that actually require a penis or a vagina, and all other occupations should be open to everyone.

Gloria Steinem

 American Activist Jobs

By the year 2000 we will, I hope, raise our children to believe in human potential, not God

Gloria Steinem

 Children

Most women are one man away from welfare.

Gloria Steinem

 American Activist Man

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.

Gloria Steinem

 American Activist Food

Someone asked me why women don't gamble as much as men do, and I gave the commonsensical reply that we don't have as much money. That was a true and incomplete answer. In fact, women's total instinct for gambling is satisfied by marriage.

Gloria Steinem

 Gambling

Women's total instinct for gambling is satisfied by marriage

Gloria Steinem

 Gambling

No man can call himself liberal, or radical, or even a conservative advocate of fair play, if his work depends in any way on the unpaid or underpaid labor of women at home or in the office

Gloria Steinem

 Conservative

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

Gloria Steinem

 American Activist

We'll never solve the feminization of power until we solve the masculinity of wealth.

Gloria Steinem

 American Activist