Quotes by Gloria Steinem

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

I’m not advocating a competition for who has it toughest. The caste systems of sex and race are interdependent and can only be uprooted together. It’s time to take equal pride in breaking all the barriers.

When people ask me why I still have hope and energy after all these years, I always say: Because I travel.

Dont write when youre angry and under deadline, with time to test it only on friends who know what you mean, not on strangers who dont.

My father did not have to trade dying alone for the joys of the road. My mother did not have to give up a journey of her own to have a home. Neither do I. Neither do you.

As feminism has changed academia by enlarging what is taught, academia has sometimes changed feminism.

Mrs. Greene made me understand the parallels between race and caste--- and how womens bodies were used to perpetuate both. Different prisons. Same key.

The idea that women are our own worst enemies forces us to admit that we dont have the power to be, even if we wanted too.

Everyone has a home but me.

One of the saddest things I hear as I travel is I dont know enough to be a feminist. Or even Im not smart enough to be a feminist. It breaks my heart.

I was angry because young men in politics were treated like rising stars and young women were treated like - well - young women. {...}I was angry about the human talent that was lost just because it was born into a female body, and the mediocrity that was rewarded because it was born into a male one.

An older man who seems to be the leader of the Jesus Tshirt group says that the Bible forbids abortion in its commandment “Thou shall not kill.”But being in the Bible Belt, people really know their Bible, and an older woman cites Exodus 21:22–23, a passage that says a man who causes a pregnant woman to miscarry must pay a fine but is not charged with murder, not unless the woman herself dies.Thus the Bible is making clear, that a dependent life is not the same as an independent life.

Father Egan continues to write about everything from the injustice of current wars to the past and future of Catholic mysticism.In the Catholic Reporter, he publishes an article titled Celibacy, a Vague Old Cross on Priestly Backs, and explains that it started only in 1139 when the church no longer wanted to be financially responsible for the children of priests.

Women are always better liked if we sacrifice ourselves for something bigger - and something bigger always means including men, even though something bigger for men doesnt usually mean including women.

In the same way that individual women are often underestimated, a movement of women is also understimated, but the truth is that, if people realize someone is willing to talk about these deep and daily concerns, they show up.

Inside, each of us has a purple motorcycle.

I also noticed that humor was even more of a survival tactic here than in most womens groups. As one asked: What did Columbus call primitive? Answer: Equal women.

I myself cried when I got angry, then became unable to explain why I was angry in the first place. Later I would discover this was endemic among female human beings. Anger is supposed to be unfeminine, so we suppress it-until it overflows.

Its time to leave. There is so much out there to do and say and listen to. I can go on the road, because I can come home. I come home, because I am free to leave.

Despite all their faults, campaigns are based on the fact that every vote counts, and therefore every person counts. As freestanding societies, they are more open than academia, more idealistic than corporations, more unifying than religions, and more accessible than government itself.