Quotes from Gloria Steinem

Writers - we're a little crazy about how much we care about it. We spend a lot of time fussing. At least, I do.

... the art of politics is to be ahead of your time--about six months will do it. Any more than that, and people forget you were there.

People say, 'Oh, you've sacrificed so much, now's the time to do something for yourself.' I mean, please - that is so wrong. I don't think I've sacrificed one f-king thing.

Paradoxically, only journeying backward in time and reentering the home we once knew allows us to go forward to the home we've always wanted.

I don't want to die saying but, you know? There's so much I want to do, so I want more time.

Republicans may learn they can't appeal to right-wing patriarchs and most women at the same time.

Actually, I believe there are more independents than either Republicans or Democrats, and yet those are the... that is the choice we have on the party ballot.

The most hurtful thing is not what comes from our adversaries, it's what comes from our friends.

The problem for all women is we're identified by how we look instead of by our heads and our hearts.

When I was little, I knew that I was not adopted, but I actually imagined and hoped that I was - and that my real parents were going to come get me.

There's no greater gift than thinking that you had some impact on the world, for the better.

A gender-equal society would be one where the word 'gender' does not exist: where everyone can be themselves.

I started out life as a writer, and writers write in part because they don't want to talk.

change starts at the bottom. I think we're disempowered by the idea that it starts at the top, when really change is like a tree. It does start at the bottom.

I always say to audiences of men: "Cooperation beats submission. Trust me."

I always trust the microcosm over the macrocosm.

[Erotica] contains the idea of love, positive choice, and the yearning for a particular person.

These poor women in academia have to talk this silly language that nobody can understand in order to be accepted, they think.

Female inferiority is internalised by us. Women need a lot more confidence.

If you hear a statistic, you will make up a story to go with it, because our brains are organized on narrative. And you may very well make up a wrong story because you only have one fact, which is a statistic.

I always wanted to put a sign up on the road to Yale saying, 'Beware: Deconstruction Ahead.'

The state of female artists is very good. But the very definition of art has been biased in that 'art' was what men did in a European tradition and 'crafts' were what women and natives did. But it's actually all the same.

Having one's traditional role questioned is not a very comfortable experience, perhaps especially for women, who have been able to remain children, and to benefit from work they did not and could not do.

If you say, I'm for equal pay, that's a reform. But if you say. I'm a feminist, that's a transformation of society.