Quotes from Gloria Steinem

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.

God may be in the details, but the goddess is in the questions. Once we begin to ask them, there's no turning back.

Movements are like rivers. Dipping into them is never the same twice.

Go out and find your own stories.That is what I want to tell you.

All biographers, no matter how sympathetic, end up using their subjects as mirrors to figure themselves out. I don't want to be anyone's mirror.

Gratitude never radicalized anybody. I don't care if they recognize the past, I just want them to get angry about the present and keep going.

Feminism isn't whatever you want it to be.

The kind of power I want is the power to persuade. But I do not want the power to tell other people what to do.

Worry less about solutions from the top or the idea that there is a solution, but try to do whatever you can and instill in each action the values that you want to result.

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.

A pedestal is as much a prison as any small, confined space.

For me, writing is the only thing that passes the three tests of metier: (i) when I'm doing it, I don't feel that I should be doing something else instead; (2) it produces a sense of accomplishment and, once in a while, pride; and (3) it's frightening.

For me, writing is the only thing that passes the three tests of metier: (1) when I'm doing it, I don't feel that I should be doing something else instead; (2.) it produces a sense of accomplishment and, once in a while, pride; and (3) it's frightening.

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

This is the wisdom: If we bless our bodies, they will bless us.

Some of us are becoming the men we wanted to marry.

If the shoe doesn't fit, must we change the foot?

Law and justice are not always the same. When they aren't, destroying the law may be the first step toward changing it.

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

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

The authority of any governing institution must stop at its citizen's skin.

Evil is obvious only in retrospect.

By the year 2000 we will, I hope, raise our children to believe in human potential,not God

Without leaps of imagination, or dreaming, we lose the excitement of possibilites. Dreaming, after all, is a form of planning.