By the year 2000 we will, I hope, raise our children to believe in human potential, not God.
GLORIA STEINEMBy the year 2000 we will, I hope, raise our children to believe in human potential, not God.
GLORIA STEINEMI 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 STEINEMIf men menstruated, they would brag about how much and for how long.
GLORIA STEINEMFar too many people are looking for the right person, instead of trying to be the right person.
GLORIA STEINEMHope is a very unruly emotion.
GLORIA STEINEMDreaming, after all, is a form of planning.
GLORIA STEINEMBattered 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 STEINEMThe authority of any governing institution must stop at its citizen’s skin.
GLORIA STEINEMThe voting booth is the only place that a pauper equals a billionaire, and any woman equals any man.
GLORIA STEINEMIn order to make a choice, you need the power to see there is one.
GLORIA STEINEMIf what’s inside your dreams wasn’t already real inside you, you couldn’t even dream it.
GLORIA STEINEMThe future depends entirely on what each of us does every day; a movement is only people moving.
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 STEINEMWomen tend to be conservative in youth and get more radical as they get older because they lose power with age. So, if a young woman is not a feminist, I say, just wait.
GLORIA STEINEMMost American children suffer too much mother and too little father.
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 STEINEM