Quotes by Gloria Steinem
One day an army of gray-haired women may quietly take over the Earth!
We've begun to raise daughters more like sons... but few have the courage to raise our sons more like our daughters.
A feminist is anyone who recognizes the equality and full humanity of women and men.
Transformation happens in small groups. Each person can speak and all listen.
It's the biggest economic influence in a woman's life whether she can decide when and whether to have children or not.
The art of life is not controlling what happens to us, but using what happens to us
Women may be the one group that grows more radical with age.
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.
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.
Women are not going to be equal outside the home until men are equal in it.
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
Clinging to the past is the problem. Embracing change is the answer.
Without leaps of imagination, or dreaming, we lose the excitement of possibilities. Dreaming, after all, is a form of planning.
Behave like everything you do matters.
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.
When unique voices are united in a common cause, they make history.
Whenever one person stands up and says, “Wait a minute, this is wrong,” it helps other people do the same.
Far too many people are looking for the right person, instead of trying to be the right person.
Empathy is the most radical of human emotions.
You are the leader you've been waiting for.
Sex and race, because they are easy and visible differences, have been the primary ways of organizing human beings into superior and inferior groups and into the cheap labour on which this system still depends.
We need to stop raising boys to think that they need to prove their masculinity by being controlling or by not showing emotion or by not being little girls.
Nothing will happen automatically. Change depends on what you and I do every day.