Gloria Steinem

There's nothing automatic about political change, about liberation. ”

It is more rewarding to watch money change the world than watch it accumulate. ”

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

The electoral system is not where change starts - it usually starts in communities and from the bottom up - but it is where change can be stopped. ”

Perfect is boring: Beauty is irregular. ”

If women are supposed to be less rational and more emotional at the beginning of our menstrual cycle when the female hormone is at its lowest level, then why isn't it logical to say that, in those few days, women behave the most like the way men behave all month long? ”

The caste systems of sex and race are interdependent and can only be uprooted together. ”

All women, and men of color - we were owned like tables and chairs. We spent a hundred years getting a legal identity as human beings. That's a big thing. ”

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. That's their natural and first weapon. She will need her sisterhood. ”

The Native American cultures on this continent, most of them, were matrilineal, and some women were the chiefs. Societies were about balance. ”