Gloria Steinem

A woman needs a man like a fish needs a bicycle.

The truth will set you free, but first it will piss you off.

We are becoming the men we wanted to marry.

If the shoe doesn't fit, must we change the foot?

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

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

America is an insane asylum run by the inmates.

Writing is the only thing that, when I do it, I don't feel I should be doing something else.

If you can make a woman laugh, you can make her do anything.

Most American women are still struggling with the idea that it's okay to be ambitious.

The art of being a good conversationalist is knowing how to listen.

Superwomen are the adversary of the women's movement.

Law and justice are not always the same. When they aren't, the law must be made to serve justice.

The test for whether or not you can hold a job should not be the arrangement of your chromosomes.

Without leaps of imagination, or dreaming, we lose the excitement of possibilities. Dreaming, after all, is a form of planning.

Childbirth is more admirable than conquest, more amazing than self-defense, and as courageous as any act on a battlefield.

Any woman who chooses to behave like a full human being should be warned that the armies of the status quo will treat her as something of a dirty joke.

The reformers are the people who have a sense of injustice, who feel that things are not as they should be.

Empathy is the most radical of human emotions.

The good news is that we are all growing up. The bad news is that we are all growing up.