Gloria Steinem Quotes
Top 100 wise famous quotes and sayings by Gloria Steinem
Gloria Steinem Famous Quotes & Sayings
Discover top inspirational quotes from Gloria Steinem on Wise Famous Quotes.
I have always employed humor, and I think it's absolutely crucial that we do because, among other things, humor is the only free emotion.
I think if we could raise one generation of kids without violence and shaming, we don't know what might be possible.
A movement happens when people are inspired by somebody, but they do it themselves. You don't wait for someone else. You do it yourself.
Women can be vivacious. We are allowed more varieties of facial expression and gestures. Men must be rocklike.
From pacifist to terrorist, each person condemns violence - and then adds one cherished case in which it may be justified.
Law and justice are not always the same. When they aren't, destroying the law may be the first step toward changing it.
We've begun to raise daughters more like sons ... but few have the courage to raise our sons more like our daughters.
Obviously, no LGBT person should be denied the ability to be who they are because their boss disagrees.
Writers are notorious for using any reason to keep from working: over-researching, retyping, going to meetings, waxing the floors - anything.
One's enemies are always talking about 'post-feminism.' It is a word invented by people who would like to do away with feminism.
When you're dependent, it's very hard not to be worried about the approval of whoever and whatever you're dependent on. For
I always thought that "humanist" was a good word long before I understood that anyone thought it was a bad word.
Marriage works best for men than women. The two happiest groups are married men and unmarried women.
It's a big gift to be recognizable as part of something that matters to people, but that's not the same as being responsible for something.
I think one of the great innovations of sexual harassment law was that it did not use the word "consent." It used the word "welcome."
God may be in the details, but the goddess is in the questions. Once we begin to ask them, there's no turning back.
read Plato or Shakespeare or Dante as if we found their books in the street and had no idea who they were. I
The new women in politics seem to be saying that we already know how to lose, thank you very much. Now we want to learn how to win.
This was my first hint of the truism that depression is anger turned inward; thus women are twice as likely to be depressed.
People in the same room understand and empathize with each other in a way that isn't possible on the page or screen.
The question of whether one has one's own political power or goes to work for someone else is not only a feminist question.
In every century, there are a handful of writers who help the human race to evolve. Andrea is one of them.
In Indian Country," he says, "we have a different sense of time. I'm learning and you're learning - and more will.
I don't know enough to be a feminist." Or even "I'm not smart enough to be a feminist." It breaks my heart.
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.
When men realize that feminism is a universal good that affects them in very intimate ways then I think they really become allies and leaders.
Fashion in the past meant conforming and losing oneself. Fashion in the present means being individual and finding oneself.
We need to unlearn some of our respect for education, since it has undermined our respect for ourselves.
A rejection of the way a woman speaks is often a way of blaming or dismissing her without dealing with the content of what she is saying.
Perhaps the most revolutionary act for a woman will be a self-willed journey - and to be welcomed when she comes home.
I began to understand with a terrible sureness that we teach what we need to learn and write what we need to know.
The electoral system is not where change starts - it usually starts in communities and from the bottom up - but it is where change can be stopped.
Imagining anything is the first step toward creating it. Believing in a true self is what allows a true self to be born.
Anything can be used for or against the welfare of women - or the welfare of anyone - depending on who controls it.
The problem for all women is we're identified by how we look instead of by our heads and our hearts.
Elephants are so wise and so funny and so endangered and so intelligent. I just think there is a lot to learn from them.
As with all inferior things, this part of the city was given an adjective while the rest stole the noun.