Power can be taken, but not given. The process of the taking is empowerment in itself.
GLORIA STEINEMlearning must travel the distance from head to heart.
More Gloria Steinem Quotes
-
-
The voting booth is the only place that a pauper equals a billionaire, and any woman equals any man.
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 -
If what’s inside your dreams wasn’t already real inside you, you couldn’t even dream it.
GLORIA STEINEM -
Intelligence without character is a dangerous thing.
GLORIA STEINEM -
Writing keeps me from believing everything I read.
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 authority of any governing institution must stop at its citizen’s skin.
GLORIA STEINEM -
Show me something that is not transformed by the other half of the human race.
GLORIA STEINEM -
We’ve begun to raise daughters more like sons… but few have the courage to raise our sons more like our daughters.
GLORIA STEINEM -
There 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 STEINEM -
I want to say to you that there is life and dreams and surprises after 30-and 40, and 50, and 60, and 77! Believe me, life is one long surprise.
GLORIA STEINEM -
Any 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 STEINEM -
By the year 2000 we will, I hope, raise our children to believe in human potential, not God.
GLORIA STEINEM -
The future depends entirely on what each of us does every day; a movement is only people moving.
GLORIA STEINEM -
A lot of my generation are living out the un-lived lives of our mothers.
GLORIA STEINEM