We've learned that women can and should do 'men's jobs,' for instance, and we've won the principle (if not the fact) of getting equal pay. But we haven't yet established the principle (much less the fact) that men can and should do 'women's jobs': that homemaking and child-rearing are as much a man's responsibility, too, and that those jobs in which women are concentrated outside the home would probably be better paid if more men became secretaries, file clerks, and nurses, too.
Gloria SteinemWomen must have seats at the table because peace is too crucial to be left only to the politicians or only to the male half of our world.
Gloria SteinemPeople waste more time waiting for someone to take charge of their lives than they do in any other pursuit.
Gloria SteinemThe most impersonal seeming audiences eventually just say such intimate, smart, wise, amazing, totally surprising, funny things. It's empowering, in the sense of feeling like you're a part of something really important.
Gloria SteinemIn art, women could never get training. They couldn't get their work out into the world even when they could get training.
Gloria SteinemThere's going to be a demand for perfectionism on the part of Hillary Clinton, or any other pro-equality woman candidate, that would not be made of men. There are going to be attacks based on different standards of morality and different standards of dress and physical attractiveness.
Gloria Steinem