Gloria Steinem

If women have young children, they are one man away from welfare.

Because I have work to care about, it is possible that I may be less difficult to get along with than other women when the double chins start to form.

Most women's magazines simply try to mold women into bigger and better consumers.

Most women are one man away from welfare.

Some of us are becoming the men we wanted to marry.

If you say, I'm for equal pay, that's a reform. But if you say. I'm a feminist, that's a transformation of society.

I'd like to be played as a child by Natalie Wood. I'd have some romantic scenes as Audrey Hepburn and have gritty black-and-white scenes as Patricia Neal.

Men should think twice before making widow hood woman's only path to power.

We'll never solve the feminization of power until we solve the masculinity of wealth.

Power can be taken, but not given. The process of the taking is empowerment in itself.

Most American children suffer too much mother and too little father.

The first problem for all of us, men and women, is not to learn, but to unlearn.

If women are supposed to be less rational and more emotional at the beginning of our menstrual cycle when the female hormone is at its lowest level, then why isn't it logical to say that, in those few days, women behave the most like the way men behave all month long?

A liberated woman is one who has sex before marriage and a job after.

I've yet to be on a campus where most women weren't worrying about some aspect of combining marriage, children, and a career. I've yet to find one where many men were worrying about the same thing.

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

Hope is a very unruly emotion.

No man can call himself liberal, or radical, or even a conservative advocate of fair play, if his work depends in any way on the unpaid or underpaid labor of women at home, or in the office.

God may be in the details, but the goddess is in the questions. Once we begin to ask them, there's no turning back.

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