An older man who seems to be the leader of the Jesus Shirt group says that the Bible forbids abortion in its commandment “Thou shall not kill.” But being in the Bible Belt, people really know their Bible, and an older woman cites Exodus 21:22–23, a passage that says a man who causes a pregnant woman to miscarry must pay a fine but is not charged with murder, not unless the woman herself dies.Thus, the Bible is making clear, that a dependent life is not the same as an independent life.

— Gloria Steinem

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. . . She will need her sisterhood.

— Gloria Steinem

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

— Gloria Steinem

Artists strive to free this true and spontaneous self in their work. Creativity, meditation are ways of freeing an inner voice.

— Gloria Steinem

As always, self-esteem had created an ability to be generous.

— Gloria Steinem

As feminism has changed academia by enlarging what is taught, academia has sometimes changed feminism.

— Gloria Steinem

As Robin Morgan wrote so wisely, "Hate generalizes, love specifies". That's what makes going on the road so important. It definitely specifies.

— Gloria Steinem

At first, feminists were assumed to be only discontented suburban housewives; then a small bunch of women's "libbers", bra burners, and radicals; then women on welfare; then briefcase carrying imitations of male executives; then unfulfilled women who forgot to have children; then women voters...that really could decide elections. That last was too dangerous, so suddenly we were told we were in a "postfeminist" age...

— Gloria Steinem

A woman reading Playboy feels a little like a Jew reading a Nazi manual.

— Gloria Steinem

A woman without a man is like a fish without a bicycle.

— Gloria Steinem