Gloria Steinem's Best Quotes on Being a Woman

"A woman who aspires to something is called a b*tch."

"A liberated woman is one who has sex before marriage and a job after."

"I've yet to be on a campus where most women weren't worrying about some aspect of combining marriage, children, and a career. I've yet to find one where many men were worrying about the same thing."

"We are the women our parents warned us against, and we are proud."

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

"Most women's magazines simply try to mold women into bigger and better consumers."

"We've begun to raise daughters more like sons . . . but few have the courage to raise our sons more like our daughters."

"I never wanted to be a politician or elected person myself, so I loved to work for other women who did — and hope that more girls will do that. The problem is the feeling that we're divided from politics, that our vote doesn't count or what we do doesn't count. In fact, everything we do counts."

"It's still the case that women don't feel as safe in the streets as men do, or girls don't as much as boys do, so I think it's important to say our bodies belong to us, no one else, no one has a right to impose on us physically, nothing justifies it for no reason if we're not giving permission."

"Women's equality is also men's survival."