Gloria Steinem

A pedestal is as much a prison as any small, confined space. ”

Obviously, there is much similarity among the challenges of transgender people and all women - from health care to harassment to discrimination in the workplace. ”

Every social justice movement that I know of has come out of people sitting in small groups, telling their life stories, and discovering that other people have shared similar experiences. ”

The Republican Party supported the Equal Rights Amendment before the Democratic Party did. But what happened was that a lot of very right-wing Democrats, after the civil rights bill of 1964, left the Democratic Party and gradually have taken over the Republican Party. ”

Law and justice are not always the same. ”

What I've learned is that unless it's an emergency, like a fire or brain surgery, hierarchy is not necessary and may be damaging. If you have a hierarchy, you're repeating the strengths and weaknesses of one person without allowing for the accumulative strength of a group. ”

God may be in the details, but the goddess is in the questions. Once we begin to ask them, there's no turning back. ”

People start to talk about post-racist, post-feminist. What does that mean? We're clearly not post either. Would you say post-democracy? Clearly we haven't reached true democracy yet. ”

There's a big gap between public opinion polls and the vote in Washington, in Congress. ”

A parking lot attendant who's a guy makes a lot more money than a child-care attendant who's a woman. ”