Gloria Steinem

I have met no men who are not afraid of women.

The only way to support a revolution is to make your own.

A woman without a man is like a fish without a bicycle.

Women have two choices: either she's a feminist or a masochist.

We've begun to raise daughters more like sons... but few have the courage to raise our sons more like our daughters.

The future depends entirely on what each of us does every day.

The art of life is not controlling what happens to us, but using what happens to us.

The only way to deal with an unfree world is to become so absolutely free that your very existence is an act of rebellion.

A feminist is anyone who recognizes the equality and full humanity of women and men.

The most common way people give up their power is by thinking they don't have any.

We are the women our parents warned us against, and we are proud.

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

A woman reading Playboy feels a little like a Jew reading a Nazi manual.

On my 70th birthday I was going to get a tramp stamp.

When I was hosting the Today show, I had a little fat removed from above my eyes so I didn't look like Mao Zedong and I could wear my contacts. It looked worse afterward.

So what would happen if suddenly, magically, men could menstruate and women could not?…Street guys would invent slang ('He's a three-pad man') and 'give fives' on the corner with some exchange like, 'Man you lookin' good!' 'Yeah, man, I'm on the rag!'

A pedestal is as much a prison as any small, confined space.

So whatever you want to do, just do it… Making a damn fool of yourself is absolutely essential.

America is an enormous frosted cupcake in the middle of millions of starving people.

I assumed that I would have to marry the man I wanted to become.