By the year 2000 we will, I hope, raise our children to believe in human potential, not God.
GLORIA STEINEMFar too many people are looking for the right person, instead of trying to be the right person.
More Gloria Steinem Quotes
-
-
The art of being helpful is behaving as if everything we do matters – because we never know which things might.
GLORIA STEINEM -
A good friendship is a conversation that never ends.
GLORIA STEINEM -
Dreaming, after all, is a form of planning.
GLORIA STEINEM -
The authority of any governing institution must stop at its citizen’s skin.
GLORIA STEINEM -
Whatever you want to do,do it now.
GLORIA STEINEM -
learning must travel the distance from head to heart.
GLORIA STEINEM -
Most American children suffer too much mother and too little father.
GLORIA STEINEM -
when pain has been intertwined with love and closeness, it’s very difficult to believe that love and closeness can be experienced without pain.
GLORIA STEINEM -
Once we give up searching for approval we often find it easier to earn respect.
GLORIA STEINEM -
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.
GLORIA STEINEM -
The origins of violence against women by men are not biological. If that were the case, it would exist in every culture. And it doesn’t exist in every culture.
GLORIA STEINEM -
imagining anything is the first step toward creating it. Believing in a true self is what allows a true self to be born.
GLORIA STEINEM -
We choose to be writers because we don’t want to talk.
GLORIA STEINEM -
[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.
GLORIA STEINEM -
Power can be taken, but not given. The process of the taking is empowerment in itself.
GLORIA STEINEM