Gloria Steinem Quotes

American activist and journalist (born 1934)

Gloria Marie Steinem (born March 25, 1934) is an American feminist, journalist, and social and political activist who became nationally recognized as a leader of, and media spokeswoman for, the women's liberation movement in the late 1960s and 1970s. A prominent writer and key counterculture era political figure, Steinem has founded many organizations and projects and has been the recipient of many awards and honors. She is a former columnist for New York magazine and co-founded Ms. magazine.

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Women have to learn how to talk as much as we listen. Men have to learn how to listen as much as they talk.

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

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

Forget about party labels. Just vote on the issues and for candidates who support equality.

the most revolutionary act for a woman will be a self-willed journey — and to be welcomed when she comes home.

Will we get to the point that learning sign language is a part of literacy? That knowing both an audible and a physical language is routine?

"If each person in the room promises that in the twenty-four hours beginning the very next day she or he will do at least one outrageous thing in the name of simple justice, then I promise I will, too. It doesn't matter whether the act is as small as saying, "Pick yourself up" (a major step for those of us who have been our family's servants) or as large as calling for a strike. The point is that, if each of us does as promised, we can be pretty sure of two results. First, the world one day later won't be quite the same.
Second, we will have such a good time doing it that we will never again get up in the morning saying, "WILL I do anything outrageous?" but only "WHAT outrageous act will I do today

Being graded for memorizing male accomplishments with the deep message that we can learn what others do but never do it ourselves.

After all, hope is a form of planning. If our hopes weren’t already real within us, we couldn’t even hope them.

I could leave — because I could return. I could return — because I knew adventure lay just beyond an open door. Instead of either/or, I discovered a whole world of and.

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

My father did not have to trade dying alone for the joys of the road. My mother did not have to give up a journey of her own to have a home. Neither do I. Neither do you.

Kirjoittaminen on ainoa asia, jota tehdessäni minusta ei tunnu siltä, että minun pitäisi tehdä jotain muuta.

In truth, we don't know which of our acts in the present will shape the future. But we have to behave as if everything we do matters. Because it might.

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