Gloria Steinem Quotes About Activism and Feminism

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.

Work is valued by the social value of the worker.

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

Men should think twice before making widow hood woman's only path to power.

Like art, revolutions come from combining what exists into what has never existed before.

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.

Childbirth is more admirable than conquest, more amazing than self-defense, and as courageous as either one.

Happy or unhappy, families are all mysterious. We have only to imagine how differently we would be described - and will be, after our deaths - by each of the family members who believe they know us.