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No gold-digging for me; I take diamonds! We may be off the gold standard someday.
— Mae West
I've no time for broads who want to rule the world alone. Without men, who'd do up the zipper on the back of your dress?
— Mae West
I don't think that women need to smell interesting.
— Lady Gaga
Men should think twice before making widow hood woman's only path to power.
— Gloria Steinem
Suddenly, I began to wonder: If one in three or four American women had an abortion at some time in her life--a common statistical estimate, even in those days of illegality-- then why, WHY should this single surgical procedure be deemed a criminal act?
— Gloria Steinem
The driver, an old Irish woman, the only such cabbie I've ever seen, turned to us at a traffic light and said the immortal words, "Honey, if men could get pregnant, abortion would be a sacrament!
— Gloria Steinem
As feminism has changed academia by enlarging what is taught, academia has sometimes changed feminism.
— Gloria Steinem
I was angry about the human talent that was lost just because it was born into a female body, and the mediocrity that was rewarded because it was born into a male one. And
— Gloria Steinem
Marriage has worked better for men than for women. The two happiest groups are married men and unmarried women.
— Gloria Steinem
Women are always better liked if we sacrifice ourselves for something bigger—and something bigger always means including men, even though something bigger for men doesn't usually mean including women.
— Gloria Steinem
That's why male adults, and some females too, experience the presence of a strong woman as a dangerous regression to a time of their own vulnerability and dependence.
— Gloria Steinem
MY LAST HOPE IS to open up the road—literally. So far it's been overwhelmingly masculine turf. Men embody adventure, women embody hearth and home, and that has been pretty much it.
— Gloria Steinem