Intelligence without character is a dangerous thing.
GLORIA STEINEMSome of us are becoming the men we wanted to marry.
More Gloria Steinem Quotes
-
-
You are the leader you’ve been waiting for.
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 -
Writing keeps me from believing everything I read.
GLORIA STEINEM -
What 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 STEINEM -
By the year 2000 we will, I hope, raise our children to believe in human potential, not God.
GLORIA STEINEM -
A lot of my generation are living out the un-lived lives of our mothers.
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 -
Power can be taken, but not given. The process of the taking is empowerment in itself.
GLORIA STEINEM -
I don’t like writing. I like having written.
GLORIA STEINEM -
Women 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 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 -
Housewives are dependent creatures who are still children…parasites.
GLORIA STEINEM -
Marriage works best for men than women. The two happiest groups are married men and unmarried women.
GLORIA STEINEM -
The authority of any governing institution must stop at its citizen’s skin.
GLORIA STEINEM -
Women may be the one group that grows more radical with age.
GLORIA STEINEM






