Quotes from Gloria Steinem

The power to make people laugh is also a power, so women have been kept out of comedy.

Also, despite the belief of population experts that uneducated women wouldn't use birth control, these women knew very well when their own bodies were suffering from too many pregnancies and births. That's why as prime minister, Indira Gandhi took on the controversy of creating the first national family planning program. Her early journeys in those women-only cars had taught her that ordinary women would use it, even if in secret, and literacy had little to do with it.

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.

Often asked why you're not married? Explain: I can't mate in captivity!

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

Those without money learn the valuable lesson that money doesn't cure all woes. Instead, it may actually insulate and isolate.

The New York Times op-ed page changed it to "Women Are Never Front-Runners.

The story of women's struggle for equality belongs to no single feminist nor to any one organization but to the collective efforts of all who care about human rights.

Women can be vivacious. We are allowed more varieties of facial expression and gestures. Men must be rocklike.

Women fear endangering men's approval so much, we don't even wait for them to say no. Or else we protect them, even if it means saying no to ourselves.

Unless we include a job as part of every citizen's right to autonomy and personal fulfillment, women will continue to be vulnerable to someone else's idea of what need is.

Clearly no one knows what leadership has gone undiscovered in women of all races, and in black and other minority men.