Quotes from Gloria Steinem

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

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

Intelligence without character is a dangerous thing.

Intelligence in the service of poor instinct is really dangerous.

What I've learned is that unless it's an emergency, like a fire or brain surgery, hierarchy is not necessary and may be damaging. If you have a hierarchy, you're repeating the strengths and weaknesses of one person without allowing for the accumulative strength of a group.

For twenty years, not a week went by when I wasn't on a plane.

The question of whether one has one's own political power or goes to work for someone else is not only a feminist question.

Pop culture shapes our ideas of what is normal and what our dreams can be and what our roles are. Politics, of course, decides how the power and the money in the country is distributed. Both are equally important, and each affects the other.

What we need to be able to do is count all human experience. So I would like to count the secretarial positions as good training places to take over the jobs of the bosses.

In a general way, anything that affects men is taken more seriously than anything that affects only women.

The Republican Party supported the Equal Rights Amendment before the Democratic Party did. But what happened was that a lot of very right-wing Democrats, after the civil rights bill of 1964, left the Democratic Party and gradually have taken over the Republican Party.

Power can be taken, but not given. The process of the taking is empowerment in itself.

This country can no longer afford to choose our leaders from a talent pool limited by sex, race, money, powerful fathers and paper degrees. It's time to take equal pride in breaking all the barriers.

... if you're a woman, all they can think about your relationship with a politician is that you're either sleeping with him or advising him about clothes.

Once we give up searching for approval we often find it easier to earn respect.

What would happen if even one generation were raised with respect and without violence?

Anything can be used for or against the welfare of women - or the welfare of anyone - depending on who controls it.

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

We must begin to shift the emphasis of teen-age pregnancy to teen-age boys.

We need to remember across generations that there is as much to learn as there is to teach.

The art of life is not controlling what happens to us, but using what happens to us

The danger of the Internet is cocooning with the like-minded online - of sending an email or Twitter and confusing that with action - while the real corporate and military and government centers of power go right on.

The same way that racism is a white person's problem, violence against women is a men's problem.

I remember someone once asked Jack Kennedy why he was paying such close attention to the renovation of the square across from the White House, and he said, 'It may be the only thing my presidency is remembered for.'