Each individual woman's body demands to be accepted on its own terms.

—Gloria Steinem

About Gloria Steinem

Portrait of Gloria Steinem

Gloria Marie Steinem ( STY-nəm; March 25, 1934 – September 2, 2026) was an American journalist and social movement activist who emerged as a nationally recognized leader of second-wave feminism in the United States in the late 1960s and early 1970s, and who remained particularly prominent in the 1980s and...

More quotations from Gloria Steinem

Happy or unhappy, families are all mysterious.

—Gloria Steinem

We need to take a leap of the imagination and envision nations as the best kinds of families: the democratic ones we are
trying to create in our own lives. A hierarchical family must
be changed anyway if we are to stop producing leaders whose
unexamined early lives are then played out on a national and
international stage.… Changing the way we raise children is the only long-term path to peace or arms control, and neither
has ever been more crucial. As the feminist adage says, "The
personal is political.

—Gloria Steinem

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Someone once asked me why women don't gamble as much as men do, and I gave the common-sensical reply that we don't have as much money. That was a true but incomplete answer. In fact, women's total instinct for gambling is satisfied by marriage.

—Gloria Steinem

Evil is obvious only in retrospect.

—Gloria Steinem

I have yet to hear a man ask for advice on how to combine marriage and a career.

—Gloria Steinem

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More quotations tagged with “body”

The mind's first step to self-awareness must be through the body.

—George Sheehan

The body is an instrument, the mind its function, the witness and reward of its operation.

—George Santayana

Of one thing I am certain, the body is not the measure of healing—peace is the measure.

—George Melton

I live in company with a body, a silent companion, exacting and eternal.

—Eugene Delacroix

But the body is deeper than the soul and its secrets inscrutable.

—E. M. Forster

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