Gloria Steinem Quotes

Work is valued by the social value of the worker.

The point of the journey is not just healing. It's also recovering the truest, most spontaneous, joyful, and creative core of ourselves.

I do not like to write - I like to have written.

Severe opposition is a measure of success (because) one inevitable result of winning a majority change in consciousness is a backlash from those forces whose power depended on the old one.

In every century, there are a handful of writers who help the human race to evolve. Andrea is one of them.

A movement is only composed of people moving. To feel its warmth and motion around us is the end as well as the means.

I never quite trust futurists because I think they're kind of telling us what they think our future should be.

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

I don't think there's any country that has equal pay, not even Sweden or Iceland.

There are many more women who identify as unique people as well as mothers, or instead of as mothers, than there used to be and, hopefully, there are more men who identify as fathers.

We're changing ourselves to fit the world instead of changing the world to fit women.

You're afraid to be close to women. Because it's not masculine to be close to women. The last time you were close to a woman, you were a child.

The whole idea is not to figure out what you should do that will matter, but to make each thing you do reflect the values you want, because we don't know what's going to matter in the future

Writing keeps me from believing everything I read.

Men have to ask, 'How can I combine career and family?'

Logic has nothing to do with oppression.

A good friendship is a conversation that never ends.

Because when some people are invisible, everyone suffers.

You are the leader you've been waiting for.

Feminism starts out being very simple, and it ends up being a world view that questions hierarchy altogether.

What has the women’s movement learned from Geraldine Ferraro’s candidacy for vice president? Never get married.

Women tend to be conservative in youth and get more radical as they get older because they lose power with age. So, if a young woman is not a feminist, I say, just wait.

Rich People plan for three generations Poor people plan for Saturday night

From pacifist to terrorist, each person condemns violence - and then adds one cherished case in which it may be justified.

It doesn't matter where we begin the personal/political circle, but it matters desperately that we complete it.

So whatever you want to do, just do it... Making a damn fool of yourself is absolutely essential.

It's endlessly interesting to be organizing and hearing possible solutions or thinking of possible solutions and how to put efforts together. It makes everything else boring, actually.

If women could sleep their way to the top, there'd be a lot more women at the top.

At my graduation, I thought we had to marry what we wished to become. Now you are becoming the men you once would have wished to marry.

My father was the Jewish half of the family, yet it was my mother who taught me to have pride in that tradition.

Show me something that is not transformed by the other half of the human race.

[on sexual politics] The Golden Rule works for men as written, but for women it should go the other way around. We need to do unto ourselves as we do unto others.

If you love your work, I'm not sure you have hobbies. I try to say no to things that other people could do and only say yes to things that only I could do.

The voting booth is the only place that a pauper equals a billionaire, and any woman equals any man.

When unique voices are united in a common cause, they make history.

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.

Life after 50 or 60 is itself another country, as different as adolescence is from childhood, or as adulthood is from adolescence - and just as adventurous.

I will no longer be referred to as Miss Steinem of Ms. magazine.

Whatever you want to do,do it now.

To me, the model of success is not linear. Success is completing the full circle of yourself.

Women have always been an equal part of the past. We just havent been a part of history.

We choose to be writers because we don't want to talk.

There are two types of people in the world, those who say 'there are two types of people in the world' and those who don't.

I think that we need to change the culture, not blame the people that are playing the only game that exists.

The power of the state stops at our skins. They can't restrict contraception [or] abortion. They can't take our kidneys. Bodily integrity is a principle.

Housewives are dependent creatures who are still children…parasites.

If men menstruated, they would brag about how much and for how long.

Prejudice marks a mental landmine.

When the past dies, there is mourning, but when the future dies our imaginations are compelled to carry it on.

More women are becoming the men they wanted to marry, but too few men are becoming the women they wanted to marry. That leaves most women with two jobs, one outside the home and one in it.