Being married is like having somebody permanently in your corner. It feels limitless, not limited.
GLORIA STEINEMBy the year 2000 we will, I hope, raise our children to believe in human potential, not God.
More Gloria Steinem Quotes
-
-
Law and justice are not always the same. When they aren’t, destroying the law may be the first step toward changing it.
GLORIA STEINEM -
I don’t like writing. I like having written.
GLORIA STEINEM -
If you really want to be lonely, get married.
GLORIA STEINEM -
Feminism has never been about getting a job for one woman. It’s about making life more fair for women everywhere. It’s not about a piece of the existing pie; there are too many of us for that. It’s about baking a new pie.
GLORIA STEINEM -
Women have two choices: Either she’s a feminist or a masochist.
GLORIA STEINEM -
You are the leader you’ve been waiting for.
GLORIA STEINEM -
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.
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 -
No one can give us power. If we aren’t part of the process of taking it, we won’t be strong enough to use it.
GLORIA STEINEM -
Without leaps of imagination, or dreaming, we lose the excitement of possibilities. Dreaming, after all, is a form of planning.
GLORIA STEINEM -
We need to remember across generations that there is as much to learn as there is to teach.
GLORIA STEINEM -
A feminist is anyone who recognizes the equality and full humanity of women and men.
GLORIA STEINEM -
I 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 STEINEM -
In order to make a choice, you need the power to see there is one.
GLORIA STEINEM






