Quotes from Gloria Steinem

People waste more time waiting for someone to take charge of their lives than they do in any other pursuit.

I can't tell the difference between my work life and my private life - it's all the same to me.

More and more men are raising children or want to be close to their kids. They don't want to just lead work-obsessed lives and end up 50 years later with an engraved watch.

The definition of woman's work is shitwork.

Thank you for all your good and beautiful work.

In art, women could never get training. They couldn't get their work out into the world even when they could get training.

Most art in the world does not have a capital 'A,' but is a way of turning everyday objects into personal expressions.

I believe that art has incredible power.

One of the things I understood from early on was that art was a symbol of systemic inequity.

Age brings a freedom. When you're young, you're much more subject to the idea of what feminine is or how you should look or how you should behave.

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

Secretary of state is far superior to vice president, because it's involved in continuously solving problems and making policy and not being on standby.

Society certainly encourages women to be victims in every way.

Men are victims of their own impulses.

I have yet to hear a man ask for advice on how to combine marriage and a career.

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.

From pacifist to terrorist, each person condemns violence - and then adds one cherished case in which it may be justified.

I'm not saying that women leaders would eliminate violence. We are not more moral than men; we are only uncorrupted by power so far. When we do acquire power, we might turn out to have an equal impulse toward aggression.

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.

If what's inside your dreams wasn't already real inside you, you couldn't even dream it.

Language can't solve everything, of course, but it does carry our dreams and our ideas.

There's nothing automatic about political change, about liberation.

Liberation does not come from outside.

An education is not a thing one gets, but a lifelong process.