A lot of my generation are living out the un-lived lives of our mothers.
GLORIA STEINEMLife 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.
More Gloria Steinem Quotes
-
-
We choose to be writers because we don’t want to talk.
GLORIA STEINEM -
Women may be the one group that grows more radical with age.
GLORIA STEINEM -
Because when some people are invisible, everyone suffers.
GLORIA STEINEM -
Each others’ lives are our best textbooks.
GLORIA STEINEM -
A woman without a man is like a fish without a bicycle.
GLORIA STEINEM -
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 -
At 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 STEINEM -
Behave like everything you do matters.
GLORIA STEINEM -
Without leaps of imagination, or dreaming, we lose the excitement of possibilities. Dreaming, after all, is a form of planning.
GLORIA STEINEM -
Intelligence without character is a dangerous thing.
GLORIA STEINEM -
A movement is only composed of people moving. To feel its warmth and motion around us is the end as well as the means.
GLORIA STEINEM -
Battered women is a phrase that uncovered major, long-hidden violence. It helps us to face the fact that, statistically speaking, the most dangerous place for a woman is in her own home, not in the streets.
GLORIA STEINEM -
The authority of any governing institution must stop at its citizen’s skin.
GLORIA STEINEM -
By the year 2000 we will, I hope, raise our children to believe in human potential, not God.
GLORIA STEINEM -
If you really want to be lonely, get married.
GLORIA STEINEM







