Gloria Steinem Quotes

After all, hope is a form of planning.

It's important for someone who could play the game - and win - to say: 'the game isn't worth shit.

To be just, a law has to be flexible.

Taking away the good is even more lethal than pointing out the bad.

For me, those weeks in Boston, with Wilma, became a lesson in her ability to be “of good mind, ” in her phrase, which also meant a people’s ability to survive.

Wherever I go, bookstores are still the closest thing to a town square.

I've noticed that great political leaders are energized by conflict. I'm energized by listening to people's stories and trying to figure out shared solutions. That's the work of an organizer.

We are becoming the men we wanted to marry

I have met brave women who are exploring the outer edge of human possibility with no history to guide them and with a courage to make themselves vulnerable that I find moving beyond words.

The first problem for all of us men and women is not to learn but to unlearn.

Self-esteem isn't everything it's just that there's nothing without it.

We teach what we need to learn and write what we need to know.

Everything about aging in my experience so far has been a plus. Except the death part!

Obviously, there is much similarity among the challenges of transgender people and all women - from health care to harassment to discrimination in the workplace.

The problem for all women is we're identified by how we look instead of by our heads and our hearts.

I think if women are visible in the media, truly visible, in an empowered role, it empowers us to be more visible in any area of our lives.

The Miss America Pageant reinforces a belief that women are merely how they look and how they please.

If women have young children, they are one man away from welfare.

What has the women's movement learned from Geraldine Ferraro's candidacy for vice president? Never get married.

I think Hefner himself wants to go down in history as a person of sophistication and glamour. But the last person I would want to go down in history as is Hugh Hefner.

Perfect is boring: Beauty is irregular.

Anger is energising. The opposite of anger is depression, which is anger turned inward.

A gender-equal society would be one where the word 'gender' does not exist: where everyone can be themselves.

All women, and men of color - we were owned like tables and chairs. We spent a hundred years getting a legal identity as human beings. That's a big thing.

The future depends entirely on what each of us does every day a movement is only people moving.