Gloria Steinem Individual Quotations

I haven't been in a job situation in which I was competing with other women. As a writer, you're more likely to be treated as an individual.

To punish the individual for the sins of the system makes no sense. We're responsible for changing it, yes. But we can't actually invent another universe, so we have to start where we are.

Women with body image or eating disorders are not a special category; [they’re] just more extreme in their response to a culture that emphasizes thinness and impossible standards of appearance for women instead of individuality and health.

As a concept [androgyny] raise[s] anxiety levels by conjuring up a conformist, unisex vision, the very opposite of the individuality and uniqueness that feminism actually has in mind.

Each individual woman's body demands to be accepted on its own terms.

... patriarchy creates megapatterns that affect us all--even as we forge different individual choices within them--just as do themegapatterns of nationalism or racism.

Fashion in the past meant conforming and losing oneself. Fashion in the present means being individual and finding oneself.