Gloria Marie Steinem is an American feminist, journalist, and social-political activist who became nationally recognized as a leader and a spokeswoman for the American feminist movement in the late 1960s and early 1970s. Steinem was a columnist for New York magazine and a co-founder of Ms. magazine. These Gloria Steinem quotes on life, friendship will motivate you.
Best Gloria Steinem Quotes
- “We’ve begun to raise daughters more like sons… but few have the courage to raise our sons more like our daughters.” ~ Gloria Steinem
- “The art of life is not controlling what happens to us, but using what happens to us” ~ Gloria Steinem, Gloria Steinem quotes on life
- “The purpose of feminism is to free the uniqueness of the individual and to understand that inside each of us is a unique human being who is a combination of heredity and environment.” ~ Gloria Steinem
- “At my age, in this still hierarchical time, people often ask me if I’m “passing the torch.” I explain that I’m keeping my torch, thank you very much and I’m using it to light the torches of others.” ~ Gloria Steinem
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“Learning must travel the distance from head to heart.” ~ Gloria Steinem
- “Without leaps of imagination or dreaming, we lose the excitement of possibilities. Dreaming, after all, is a form of planning.” ~ Gloria Steinem
- “Far too many people are looking for the right person, instead of trying to be the right person.” ~ Gloria Steinem
- “Clinging to the past is the problem. Embracing change is the answer.” ~ Gloria Steinem
- “Empathy is the most radical of human emotions.” ~ Gloria Steinem
- “Any 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
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“Women are not going to be equal outside the home until men are equal in it.” ~ Gloria Steinem
- “When I’m talking to people, I find myself quoting the three organizing rules of Black Lives Matter. Black Lives Matter was initiated by three young women, and too few people know that. But, anyway, the first one is lead with love. The second is low ego, high impact. The third is move with the speed of trust. I must say those make me feel very hopeful for the future.” ~ Gloria Steinem
- “The origins of violence against women by men are not biological. If that were the case, it would exist in every culture. And it doesn’t exist in every culture.” ~ Gloria Steinem
- “A feminist is anyone who recognizes the equality and full humanity of women and men.” ~ Gloria Steinem
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“In order to make a choice, you need the power to see there is one.” ~ Gloria Steinem
- “No man can call himself liberal, or radical, or even a conservative advocate of fair play, if his work depends in any way on the unpaid or underpaid labor of women at home, or in the office.” ~ Gloria Steinem
- “No one can give us power. If we aren’t part of the process of taking it, we won’t be strong enough to use it.” ~ Gloria Steinem
- “The future depends entirely on what each of us does every day; a movement is only people moving.” ~ Gloria Steinem
- “Some of us are becoming the men we wanted to marry.” ~ Gloria Steinem
- “I was rescued by librarians. It was librarians who said ‘maybe you would like to read The Hardy Boys as well as Nancy Drew.’ It is true for me, as for so many countless others, that librarians saved my life, my internal life.” ~ Gloria Steinem
- “The story of women’s struggle for equality belongs to no single feminist nor to any one organization but to the collective efforts of all who care about human rights” ~ Gloria Steinem
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“Helping begins with listening.” ~ 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
- “If what’s inside your dreams wasn’t already real inside you, you couldn’t even dream it.” ~ Gloria Steinem
- “Feminism has never been about getting a job for one woman. It’s about making life more fair for women everywhere. It’s not about a piece of the existing pie; there are too many of us for that. It’s about baking a new pie.” ~ Gloria Steinem
- “I’ve yet to be on a campus where most women weren’t worrying about some aspect of combining marriage, children, and a career. I’ve yet to find one where many men were worrying about the same thing.” ~ Gloria Steinem
- “What I think we need to do is infuse every day 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
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“Dreaming, after all, is a form of planning.” ~ Gloria Steinem
- “One day an army of gray-haired women may quietly take over the Earth!” ~ Gloria Steinem
- “But somewhere within each of us, buried at varying depths depending on the age and degree of neglect or abuse, shame or coercion we endured, there is a resistant, daydreaming, rebellious, creative, unique child — a true self who is waiting.” ~ Gloria Steinem
- “The first problem for all of us, men and women, is not to learn, but to unlearn.” ~ 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
- “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
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“Women may be the one group that grows more radical with age.” ~ Gloria Steinem
- “Whenever one person stands up and says, “Wait a minute, this is wrong,” it helps other people do the same.” ~ Gloria Steinem
- “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 Steinem
- “Rich People plan for three generations Poor people plan for Saturday night” ~ Gloria Steinem
- “Power can be taken, but not given. The process of the taking is empowerment in itself.” ~ Gloria Steinem
- “There 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 Steinem - “I’m completely happy not having children. I mean, everybody does not have to live in the same way. And as somebody said, “Everybody with a womb doesn’t have to have a child any more than everybody with vocal cords has to be an opera singer.”” ~ Gloria Steinem
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“I have yet to hear a man ask for advice on how to combine marriage and a career.” ~ Gloria Steinem
- “I 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 Steinem
- “I believe a unique core self is born into every human being; the result of millennia of environment and heredity combined in an unpredictable way that could never happen before or again.” ~ Gloria Steinem
- “So whatever you want to do, just do it… Making a damn fool of yourself is absolutely essential.” ~ Gloria Steinem
- “Life 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 Steinem
- “Most American children suffer too much mother and too little father.” ~ Gloria Steinem
- “By the year 2000 we will, I hope, raise our children to believe in human potential, not God.” ~ Gloria Steinem
- “If women are supposed to be less rational and more emotional at the beginning of our menstrual cycle when the female hormone is at its lowest level, then why isn’t it logical to say that, in those few days, women behave the most like the way men behave all month long?” ~ Gloria Steinem Quotes
- “Probably those three things affect the most people: reproductive freedom, freedom from violence, and democratic families. But there may well be someone sitting at this table who has a great idea to do something else that wouldn’t come under those umbrellas and that would really be great, and make all kinds of change.” ~ Gloria Steinem
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“A woman without a man is like a fish without a bicycle.” ~ Gloria Steinem
- “There 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 Steinem
- “No wonder male religious leaders so often say that humans were born in sin—because we were born to female creatures. Only by obeying the rules of the patriarchy can we be reborn through men. No wonder priests and ministers in skirts sprinkle imitation birth fluid over our heads, give us new names, and promise rebirth into everlasting life.” ~ Gloria Steinem
- “Show me something that is not transformed by the other half of the human race.” ~ Gloria Steinem
- “It’s an incredible con job when you think about it, to believe something now in exchange for something after death. Even corporations with their reward systems don’t try to make it posthumous.” ~ Gloria Steinem
- “If women could sleep their way to the top, there’d be a lot more women at the top.” ~ Gloria Steinem
