Women have two choices: Either she’s a feminist or a masochist.
GLORIA STEINEMWomen have two choices: Either she’s a feminist or a masochist.
GLORIA STEINEMlearning must travel the distance from head to heart.
GLORIA STEINEMClinging to the past is the problem. Embracing change is the answer.
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 STEINEMThe art of being helpful is behaving as if everything we do matters – because we never know which things might.
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 STEINEMHelping begins with listening.
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 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.
GLORIA STEINEMIf the shoe doesn’t fit, must we change the foot?
GLORIA STEINEMA good friendship is a conversation that never ends.
GLORIA STEINEMIf what’s inside your dreams wasn’t already real inside you, you couldn’t even dream it.
GLORIA STEINEMBehave like everything you do matters.
GLORIA STEINEMI don’t like writing. I like having written.
GLORIA STEINEMI believe that transgender people, including those who have transitioned, are living out real, authentic lives. Those lives should be celebrated, not questioned. Their health care decisions should be theirs and theirs alone to make.
GLORIA STEINEMWriting keeps me from believing everything I read.
GLORIA STEINEM