Gloria Steinem

The less we talk about it, the more it eats at us.

I want to thank the women who are here, and the women who aren't, for making me possible.

The purpose of feminism is to free men.

We are still living in a patriarchal society, and we have to fight against it every day.

What would happen if one woman told the truth about her life? The world would split open.

We are not a minority. We are a majority. We are half of the human race.

The surest way to lose yourself is to try to please everyone.

Women's liberation is the liberation of all people.

The less you need, the freer you are.

I believe that the only way we can change the world is by changing ourselves.

The surest way to be alone is to get married.

In short, pornography is not about sex. It's about an imbalance of male-female power that allows and even requires sex to be used as a form of aggression... There will be little murders in our beds - and very little love.

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

If you're a woman, all they can think about your relationship with a politician is that you're either sleeping with him or advising him about clothes.

Men should think twice before making widowhood women's only path to power.

Whatever the gender of the participants, all pornography including male-male gay pornography is an imitation of the male-female, conqueror-victim paradigm, and almost all of it actually portrays or implies enslaved women and master.

You can hardly open a newspaper without seeing that a woman has been killed by a man for clearly gender-related reasons.

Children who have been very sadistically abused over the long-term are able to dissociate, some of them are able to dissociate as a way of surviving and inventing someone to whom this doesn't happen. And so therefore, they invent within themselves different personalities who have life histories of their own. Many people invent an opposite gender personality as well.

Women are becoming the men we wanted to marry. (But too few men are becoming the women they wanted to marry)

Revolutions that last don't happen from the top down. They happen from the bottom up.