This country can no longer afford to choose our leaders from a talent pool limited by sex, race, money, powerful fathers and paper degrees. It's time to take equal pride in breaking all the barriers.Gloria Steinem
Having one's traditional role questioned is not a very comfortable experience, perhaps especially for women, who have been able to remain children, and to benefit from work they did not and could not do.Gloria Steinem
The origins of violence against women by men are not biological. If that were the case, it would exist in every culture. And it doesn't exist in every culture.Gloria Steinem
To say 'radical feminist' is only a way of indicating that I believe the sexual caste system is a root of race and class and other divisions.Gloria Steinem
The caste systems of sex and race are interdependent and can only be uprooted together.Gloria Steinem
For much of the female half of the world, food is the first signal of our inferiority. It lets us know that our own families may consider female bodies to be less deserving, less needy, less valuable.Gloria Steinem
The Constitution did not mention women when it was first written, and it still doesn't.Gloria Steinem
Anything can be used for or against the welfare of women - or the welfare of anyone - depending on who controls it.Gloria Steinem