Gloria Steinem

"If men can run the world, why can't they stop wearing neckties?"

"Age becomes reality when there is nothing in the future to look forward to."

"Women are not going to be equal outside the home until men are equal inside."

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

"Outrageous behavior is the best revenge."

"Help each other. Love everyone. Every leaf a flower."

"Morality is simply the attitude we adopt toward people whom we personally dislike."

"Secrecy is the beginning of tyranny."

"Don't settle for anything less than butterflies."

"The truth is, that we are women, first and foremost."

"To move beyond racism, we must begin to see color."

"I want to be a free human being and claim my right to think for myself."

"In every conceivable manner, the family is link to our past, bridge to our future."

"There is no female mind. The brain is not an organ of sex."

"Women are the only group that grows smaller as they age."

"The emotional, sexual, and psychological stereotyping of females begins when the doctor says, it's a girl."

"A woman is the full circle. Within her is the power to create, nurture, transform, and heal."

"Happy or unhappy, families are all mysterious. We have access only to our own two or three members."

"Rich people plan for four generations. Poor people plan for Saturday night."

"It's clear that most American children suffer too much mother and too little father."

"Violence and the fear of violence have become hallmarks of American culture."

"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."

"We can tell our values by looking at our checkbook stubs."

"Whoever controls the media controls the mind."

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

"Luck or circumstances have a lot to do with it, but there are things you can control."

"A woman without a man is increasingly a woman without a future."

"We are human beings first, and our occupations are what we do, not who we are."

"The feminist movement taught women to see themselves as discriminated against."

"No woman gets an orgasm from shining the kitchen floor."