Being married is like having somebody permanently in your corner. It feels limitless, not limited.
GLORIA STEINEMBeing married is like having somebody permanently in your corner. It feels limitless, not limited.
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 STEINEMWomen are not going to be equal outside the home until men are equal in it.
GLORIA STEINEMThe art of being helpful is behaving as if everything we do matters – because we never know which things might.
GLORIA STEINEMHelping begins with listening.
GLORIA STEINEMPower can be taken, but not given. The process of the taking is empowerment in itself.
GLORIA STEINEMimagining anything is the first step toward creating it. Believing in a true self is what allows a true self to be born.
GLORIA STEINEMIntelligence without character is a dangerous thing.
GLORIA STEINEMIf you really want to be lonely, get married.
GLORIA STEINEMWhat would happen if even one generation were raised with respect and without violence?
GLORIA STEINEMWomen can be vivacious. We are allowed more varieties of facial expression and gestures. Men must be rocklike.
GLORIA STEINEMI believe that transgender people, including those who have transitioned, are living out real, authentic lives. Those lives should be celebrated, not questioned. Their health care decisions should be theirs and theirs alone to make.
GLORIA STEINEMThe future depends entirely on what each of us does every day; a movement is only people moving.
GLORIA STEINEMThe purpose of feminism is to free the uniqueness of the individual and to understand that inside each of us is a unique human being who is a combination of heredity and environment.
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 STEINEMBy the year 2000 we will, I hope, raise our children to believe in human potential, not God.
GLORIA STEINEM