The art of being helpful is behaving as if everything we do matters – because we never know which things might.
GLORIA STEINEMThe art of being helpful is behaving as if everything we do matters – because we never know which things might.
GLORIA STEINEMIf what’s inside your dreams wasn’t already real inside you, you couldn’t even dream it.
GLORIA STEINEMMarriage works best for men than women. The two happiest groups are married men and unmarried women.
GLORIA STEINEMA woman without a man is like a fish without a bicycle.
GLORIA STEINEMThere are many ways of supporting gender equality, from something as simple as paid sick leave and flexible work hours to attributing an economic value to all care-giving, and making that amount tax deductible.
GLORIA STEINEMOnce we give up searching for approval we often find it easier to earn respect.
GLORIA STEINEMI don’t like writing. I like having written.
GLORIA STEINEMDreaming, after all, is a form of planning.
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 STEINEMOne day an army of gray-haired women may quietly take over the Earth!
GLORIA STEINEMI have yet to hear a man ask for advice on how to combine marriage and a career.
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 STEINEMAny woman who chooses to behave like a full human being should be warned that the armies of the status quo will treat her as something of a dirty joke. That’s their natural and first weapon. She will need her sisterhood.
GLORIA STEINEMThe future depends entirely on what each of us does every day; a movement is only people moving.
GLORIA STEINEMPower can be taken, but not given. The process of the taking is empowerment in itself.
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 STEINEM