If you've never had a mother or a father, you grow up seeking something you're never going to find, ever. You seek it in love and in people and in beauty.


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The error that we tend to make is that we think that women's magazines are what editors want and...
GLORIA STEINEM
The most hurtful thing is not what comes from our adversaries, it's what comes from our friends.
GLORIA STEINEM
I think Hefner himself wants to go down in history as a person of sophistication and glamour. But th...
GLORIA STEINEM
Anger is energising. The opposite of anger is depression, which is anger turned inward.
GLORIA STEINEM
I hate to generalize, but in general, both men and women suffer from ageism. Men much less because m...
GLORIA STEINEM
I'm very comfortable in my own skin now. I started just being myself more and more. For women, t...
GLORIA ESTEFAN
A woman's heart is a deep ocean of secrets.
GLORIA STUART
Without leaps of imagination, or dreaming, we lose the excitement of possibilities. Dreaming, after ...
GLORIA STEINEM
Do feminists have a sense of humor? Yes.
GLORIA ALLRED
When I graduated from Santa Monica High in 1927, I was voted the girl most likely to succeed. I didn...
GLORIA STUART
A gender-equal society would be one where the word 'gender' does not exist: where everyone c...
GLORIA STEINEM
I became a fanatic about healthy food in 1944.
GLORIA SWANSON
Old as she was, she still missed her daddy sometimes.
GLORIA NAYLOR
Much as I cared for Joseph Kennedy, he was a classic example of that person in the arts with lots of...
GLORIA SWANSON
The destruction of the natural beauty, the ecosystems, and the majesty of mountains affect us in way...
GLORIA REUBEN
I felt as if I had no control over what I said, as if loathsome, ugly words were waiting inside me l...
GLORIA WHELAN
I remember someone once asked Jack Kennedy why he was paying such close attention to the renovation ...
GLORIA STEINEM
I had starred in more than 30 successful films, six in a row directed by Cecil B. De Mille.
GLORIA SWANSON
All women, and men of color - we were owned like tables and chairs. We spent a hundred years getting...
GLORIA STEINEM
Men should think twice before making widowhood women's only path to power.
GLORIA STEINEM
From pacifist to terrorist, each person condemns violence - and then adds one cherished case in whic...
GLORIA STEINEM
I think there should be better child support laws to make it easier for those single moms to support...
GLORIA ALLRED
The Native American cultures on this continent, most of them, were matrilineal, and some women were ...
GLORIA STEINEM
Now that she had actually seen and accepted reality, and reality brought such a healing calm.
GLORIA NAYLOR
But will you not have a house to care for? Meals to cook? Children whining for this or that? Will yo...
GLORIA WHELAN
The caste systems of sex and race are interdependent and can only be uprooted together.
GLORIA STEINEM
We are still behaving as if a worker really doesn't have a family because the work pattern reall...
GLORIA STEINEM
Any woman who chooses to behave like a full human being should be warned that the armies of the stat...
GLORIA STEINEM
We've begun to raise daughters more like sons... but few have the courage to raise our sons more...
GLORIA STEINEM
I'd like to be played as a child by Natalie Wood. I'd have some romantic scenes as Audrey He...
GLORIA STEINEM
As an immigrant, I appreciate, far more than the average American, the liberties we have in this cou...
GLORIA ESTEFAN
A parking lot attendant who's a guy makes a lot more money than a child-care attendant who's...
GLORIA STEINEM
It is very frightening to feel alone when you are standing against a rich and powerful person and al...
GLORIA ALLRED
Obviously there is no such thing as race, and in many ways, sex is a continuum, not a binary. So it ...
GLORIA STEINEM
We protect aspirin bottles in this country better than we protect guns from accidents by children.
GLORIA ESTEFAN
I could have had someone else take care of my child but I did it because that was my moral obligatio...
GLORIA ALLRED
I think I sound like Barry White.
GLORIA GAYNOR
The state of female artists is very good. But the very definition of art has been biased in that ...
GLORIA STEINEM
Being misunderstood by people whose opinions you value is absolutely the most painful.
GLORIA STEINEM
Life and death. They are somehow sweetly and beautifully mixed, but I don't know how.
GLORIA SWANSON
I think everyone envisions me sitting at Alexandre's all day, picking out beautiful clothes from...
GLORIA GUINNESS
Men have a much better time of it than women: for one thing they marry later, for another thing they...
GLORIA STEINEM
Marriage: A ceremony in which rings are put on the finger of the lady and through the nose of the ge...
GLORIA STEINEM
The first problem for all of us men and women is not to learn, but to unlearn.
GLORIA STEINEM
The only thing I can't stand is discomfort.
GLORIA STEINEM
A woman without a man is like a fish without a bicycle.
GLORIA STEINEM