Gloria Steinem Quotes

When someone asks me if I believe in God and I say no — I believe in people — I

A lot of my generation are living out the un-lived lives of our mothers.

The road is messy in the way that real life is messy. It leads us out of denial and into reality, out of theory and into practice, out of caution and into action, out of statistics and into stories — in short, out of our heads and into our hearts.

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

Citizens who refuse to obey anything but their own conscience can transform countries, it is the basis of any real democracy.

Anyone who believes we’re living in a postfeminist age will learn that violence against females — from female infanticide and child marriage to honor killings and sex trafficking — has now produced a world with fewer females than males, a first in recorded history.

"Our grief is not a cry for war.
"That's how New Yorkers feel," the driver said. "They know what bombing looks like, and they know the hell it is. But outside New York, people will feel guilty because they weren't here. They'll be yelling for revenge out of guilt and ignorance. Sure, we all want to catch the criminals, but only people who weren't in New York will want to bomb another country and repeat what happened here.

I can go on the road - because I can come home. I come home - because I'm free to leave. Each way of being is more valued in the presence of the other.

For women, the only alternative to being a feminist is being a masochist.

If I could, I would leave an open space for your story on every page.

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

I think the fact that I've become a symbol for the women's movement is somewhat accidental. A woman member of Congress, for example, might be identified as a member of Congress; it doesn't mean she's any less of a feminist but she's identified by her nearest male analog. Well, I don't have a male analog so the press has to identify me with the movement. I suppose I could be referred to as a journalist, but because Ms. is part of a movement and not just a typical magazine, I'm more likely to be identified with the movement. There's no other slot to put me in.

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

On the road, I learned that the media are not reality; reality is reality.

If you travel long enough, every story becomes a novel.