Gloria Steinem Quotes about Feminism

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Women may be the one group that grows more radical with age.

Women may be the one group that grows more radical with age.

Gloria Steinem

Women, Feminist, Feminism

Gloria Steinem (2012). “Outrageous Acts and Everyday Rebellions”, p.326, Open Road Media

Feminism has never been about getting a job for one woman. It's about making life more fair for women everywhere. It's not about a piece of the existing pie; there are too many of us for that. It's about baking a new pie.

Gloria Steinem

Jobs, Pie, Feminism

"Wrong woman, wrong message" by Gloria Steinem, articles.latimes.com. September 4, 2008.

Women tend to be conservative in youth and get more radical as they get older because they lose power with age. So, if a young woman is not a feminist, I say, just wait.

Gloria Steinem

Feminist, Waiting, Feminism

Feminism starts out being very simple, and it ends up being a world view that questions hierarchy altogether.

Gloria Steinem

Simple, Views, Feminism

The political is personal.

Gloria Steinem

Political, Feminism, Politics

Gloria Steinem (2015). “My Life on the Road”, p.127, Random House

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

Gloria Steinem

Reading, Feminist, Feminism

McCall's, Oct. 1970

Feminism isn't called the longest revolution for nothing.

Gloria Steinem

Feminism, Revolution

The nineteenth-century wave of feminism was started by older women who had been through the radicalizing experience of getting married and becoming the legal chattel of their husbands (or the equally radicalizing experience of not getting married and being treated as spinsters).

Gloria Steinem

Marriage, Husband, Feminism

Gloria Steinem (2012). “Outrageous Acts and Everyday Rebellions”, p.331, Open Road Media