The first problem for all of us, men and women, is not to learn, but to unlearn.
GLORIA STEINEMThe first problem for all of us, men and women, is not to learn, but to unlearn.
GLORIA STEINEMNo 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 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 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 STEINEMimagining anything is the first step toward creating it. Believing in a true self is what allows a true self to be born.
GLORIA STEINEMBehave like everything you do matters.
GLORIA STEINEMThe voting booth is the only place that a pauper equals a billionaire, and any woman equals any man.
GLORIA STEINEMEach others’ lives are our best textbooks.
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 STEINEMA lot of my generation are living out the un-lived lives of our mothers.
GLORIA STEINEMOnce we give up searching for approval we often find it easier to earn respect.
GLORIA STEINEMHope is a very unruly emotion.
GLORIA STEINEMWe need to remember across generations that there is as much to learn as there is to teach.
GLORIA STEINEMSo why is the sex barrier not taken as seriously as the racial one?
GLORIA STEINEMThe art of being helpful is behaving as if everything we do matters – because we never know which things might.
GLORIA STEINEMWhenever one person stands up and says, “Wait a minute, this is wrong,” it helps other people do the same.
GLORIA STEINEM