Once we give up searching for approval we often find it easier to earn respect.
GLORIA STEINEMOnce we give up searching for approval we often find it easier to earn respect.
GLORIA STEINEMEmpathy is the most radical of human emotions.
GLORIA STEINEMBecause when some people are invisible, everyone suffers.
GLORIA STEINEMWhat I think we need to do is infuse everyday and every action with the kind of values we hope will be in the future, with kindness, with nurturing, with dreams, ambition, using your talents, not resorting to violence, other forms of conflict resolution, with humor, with poetry, with music.
GLORIA STEINEMWe choose to be writers because we don’t want to talk.
GLORIA STEINEMAt 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.
GLORIA STEINEMThe story of women’s struggle for equality belongs to no single feminist nor to any one organization but to the collective efforts of all who care about human rights
GLORIA STEINEMWhenever one person stands up and says, “Wait a minute, this is wrong,” it helps other people do the same.
GLORIA STEINEMWe need to remember across generations that there is as much to learn as there is to teach.
GLORIA STEINEMI want us to organize, to tell the personal stories that create empathy, which is the most revolutionary emotion.
GLORIA STEINEMWe’ve begun to raise daughters more like sons… but few have the courage to raise our sons more like our daughters.
GLORIA STEINEMI want to say to you that there is life and dreams and surprises after 30-and 40, and 50, and 60, and 77! Believe me, life is one long surprise.
GLORIA STEINEMBy the year 2000 we will, I hope, raise our children to believe in human potential, not God.
GLORIA STEINEMI have me brave women who are exploring the outer edge of human possibility, with no history to guide them, and with a courage to make themselves vulnerable that I find moving beyond words.
GLORIA STEINEMWomen have two choices: Either she’s a feminist or a masochist.
GLORIA STEINEMA movement is only composed of people moving. To feel its warmth and motion around us is the end as well as the means.
GLORIA STEINEM