Quotes from Gloria Steinem

if you don't stand up for yourselves, how can you stand up for anybody else?

Statistically speaking, home is an even more dangerous place for women than the road.

I pray for the courage To walk naked At any age To wear red and purple, To be unladylike, Inappropriate, Scandalous and incorrect To the very end.

Our current plight is not made inevitable by human nature. What once was could be again—in a new way.

The irony here is that thanks to molecular archaeology—which includes the study of ancient DNA to trace human movement over time—we now know that men have been the stay-at-homes, and women have been the travelers. The rate of intercontinental migration for women is about eight times that for men.

the most revolutionary act for a woman will be a self-willed journey—and to be welcomed when she comes home.

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. And

The art of life is not controlling what happens, it's using what happens.

the Catholic Church not only didn't oppose abortion but actually regulated it until the mid-nineteenth century. It was made a mortal sin mostly for population reasons.8 Napoleon III wanted more soldiers, and Pope Pius IX wanted all the teaching positions in the French schools—plus the doctrine of papal infallibility—so they traded. Also

Marriage has worked better for men than for women. The two happiest groups are married men and unmarried women.

Never having seen women play chess, they assumed this game wasn't for them and without even a female teacher as role model, they dropped out.

Altogether, I can't imagine technology replacing bookstores completely, any more than movies about a country replace going there.