Gloria Steinem Quotes

Unless men are active allies, we'll never end violence against women and girls.

Calling gender violence a women's issue is part of the problem. It gives a lot of men an excuse not to pay attention.

Antiracists must acknowledge that patriarchy has long been a weapon of racism and cannot sit comfortably in any politic of racial transformation.

Men who want to support women in our struggle for freedom and justice should understand that it is not terrifically important to us that they learn to cry; it is important to us that they stop the crimes of violence against us.

I think that men need to have a little bit of manism. You have feminism. I don't have a problem with that.

One of the biggest problems with the modern feminist movement is its failure to bring men along with us.

Why is it that many contemporary male thinkers, especially men of color, repudiate the imperialist legacy of Columbus but affirm dimensions of that legacy by their refusal to repudiate patriarchy?

Most male victims of violence are the victims of other men's violence. So that's something that both women and men have in common. We are both victims of men's violence.

No, feminism isn't 'over.' We need it not only to challenge injustice but because the whole gender expectations thing is bad for men, too.

Feminized wimps need to be removed from our government, from our media, from our educational institutions, and replaced by real white men.... That'll be a tough job.... I don't really care how the job is done—whether the wimps all get machine-gunned and bulldozed into giant lime pits or whether their thinking is eventually straightened out by a program of prolonged trauma and privation

Feminism needs a political program because gender inequality has been fostered by political decisions.

Feminism isn't just for women. It's for men.

As women are empowered, violence can come down, for a number of reasons. By all measures, men are the more violent gender.

I don't think women are better than men, I think men are a lot worse than women.

I do not fight against men, but against the system that is sexist.

Once boys' and men's challenges are clear, the question 'why now' quickly becomes 'why didn't we see this sooner?' The answer? Virtually every society that survived did so by socializing its sons to be disposable.

Until men learn to celebrate and operate on the feminine aspect of themselves and stop the oppression of women, children, the environment, other species, we don't have a world to live in. It's not a world that anyone chooses to live in.

Women may fall when there's no strength in men.

My feminism is humanism, with the weakest being those who I represent, and that includes many beings and life forms, including some men.

Let's put one lie to rest for all time: the lie that men are oppressed, too, by sexism-the lie that there can be such a thing as men's liberation groups.

I've never seen a world where only men were responsible for the violence, and the women were innocent. They go together. Men and women are a violent mixture.

What, do you think that feminism means you hate men?

I think I am really irreverent and I pretty much just talk to and about men the way men talk to and about women.

Hollywood is run by men who are big on vulnerability.

If I have any sexist feelings they are aimed at men: I hate manly men.