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 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 STEINEMThere is a naive belief that injustice only had to be pointed out in order to be cured.
GLORIA STEINEMWhenever one person stands up and says, “Wait a minute, this is wrong,” it helps other people do the same.
GLORIA STEINEMIn order to make a choice, you need the power to see there is one.
GLORIA STEINEMAt 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 STEINEMI want us to organize, to tell the personal stories that create empathy, which is the most revolutionary emotion.
GLORIA STEINEMThe art of being helpful is behaving as if everything we do matters – because we never know which things might.
GLORIA STEINEMThere 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 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 STEINEMA feminist is anyone who recognizes the equality and full humanity of women and men.
GLORIA STEINEMWithout leaps of imagination, or dreaming, we lose the excitement of possibilities. Dreaming, after all, is a form of planning.
GLORIA STEINEMSo why is the sex barrier not taken as seriously as the racial one?
GLORIA STEINEMA movement is only composed of people moving. To feel its warmth and motion around us is the end as well as the means.
GLORIA STEINEMInner space is the real frontier.
GLORIA STEINEMSo whatever you want to do, just do it… Making a damn fool of yourself is absolutely essential.
GLORIA STEINEMEmpathy is the most radical of human emotions.
GLORIA STEINEM