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?
Gloria Steinem

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

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.
Gloria Steinem

In my own mind, I am still a fat brunette from Toledo, and I always will be.
Gloria Steinem

It is more rewarding to watch money change the world than watch it accumulate.
Gloria Steinem

It's an incredible con job when you think about it, to believe something now in exchange for something after death. Even corporations with their reward systems don't try to make it posthumous.
Gloria Steinem

Law and justice are not always the same.
Gloria Steinem

Like art, revolutions come from combining what exists into what has never existed before.
Gloria Steinem

Logic is in the eye of the logician.
Gloria Steinem

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

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

Most women are one man away from welfare.
Gloria Steinem

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

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.
Gloria Steinem

Planning ahead is a measure of class. The rich and even the middle class plan for future generations, but the poor can plan ahead only a few weeks or days.
Gloria Steinem

Pornography is about dominance. Erotica is about mutuality.
Gloria Steinem

Pornography is the instruction. Rape is the practice, battered women are the practice, and battered children are the practice.
Gloria Steinem

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

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

The authority of any governing institution must stop at its citizen's skin.
Gloria Steinem