Quotes about Equality
I was angry about the human talent that was lost just because it was born into a female body, and the mediocrity that was rewarded because it was born into a male one. And
— Gloria Steinem
Marriage has worked better for men than for women. The two happiest groups are married men and unmarried women.
— Gloria Steinem
Never having seen women play chess, they assumed this game wasn't for them and without even a female teacher as role model, they dropped out.
— Gloria Steinem
Women are always better liked if we sacrifice ourselves for something bigger—and something bigger always means including men, even though something bigger for men doesn't usually mean including women.
— Gloria Steinem
That's why male adults, and some females too, experience the presence of a strong woman as a dangerous regression to a time of their own vulnerability and dependence.
— Gloria Steinem
What I really want to say: That what the world really needs is a real feeling of kinship. Everybody: stars, laborers, Negroes, Jews, Arabs. We are all brothers. Please don't make me a joke. End the interview with what I believe.
— Gloria Steinem
Women are always saying, "We can do anything that men can do." But men are not saying, "We can do anything that women can do.
— Gloria Steinem
MY LAST HOPE IS to open up the road—literally. So far it's been overwhelmingly masculine turf. Men embody adventure, women embody hearth and home, and that has been pretty much it.
— Gloria Steinem
Men would support us, we are told, if only we learned how to ask in the right way. It's a subtle and effective way of not only blaming the victim, but making the victim blame herself.
— Gloria Steinem
she is still better known than most living movie stars, most world leaders, and most television personalities. The surprise is that she rarely has been taken seriously enough to ask why that is so.
— Gloria Steinem
The more polarized the gender roles, the more violent the society. The less polarized the gender roles, the more peaceful the society.
— Gloria Steinem
Pound for pound, she was stronger than Arnold Schwarzenegger.
— Gloria Steinem