Gloria Steinem Quotes

In Native spiritualities, there is often a belief that we cannot pray unless we’ve laughed.

When the past dies, we mourn for the dead. When the future dies, we mourn for ourselves.

I’m not sure we can understand another country if we don’t understand our own.

Beware of any motto that glorifies the past. It’s code for restoring hierarchy. For example: “Make America great again.

Not even in a movie had I ever seen a wife with a journey of her own. Marriage was always the happy end, not the beginning. It was the 1950s, and I confused growing up with settling down.

Whatever you want to do, just do it. Making a damn fool of yourself is absolutely essential.

Men should think twice before making widowhood women's only path to power.

Happy or Unhappy, families are all mysterious.

The real reasons for genital mutilation can only be understood in the context of the "patriarchy": men must control women's bodies as the means of production, and thus repress the independent power of women's sexuality.

I do not like to write - I like to have written.

As with all inferior things, this part of the city was given an adjective while the rest stole the noun.

I began to see that for some, religion was just a form of politics you couldn’t criticize.

Men embody adventure, women embody hearth and home, and that has been pretty much it.
Even as a child, I noticed that Dorothy in The Wizard of Oz spent her entire time trying to get back home to Kansas, and Alice in Wonderland dreamed her long adventure, then woke up just in time for tea.

Your daughters are watching you.

Always ask the turtle.