Change Quotes by Gloria Steinem

Nothing will happen automatically. Change depends on what you and I do every day.

— Gloria Steinem

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.

— Gloria Steinem

Of course, we can change. We're very adaptable. But it takes a while.

— Gloria Steinem

We're changing ourselves to fit the world instead of changing the world to fit women.

— Gloria Steinem

Every revolution begins as consciousness because some group of people has to imagine change. You have to have the idea of change…

— Gloria Steinem

We have to imagine change before we can begin to move toward it.

— Gloria Steinem

The electoral system is not where change starts - it usually starts in communities and from the bottom up - but it…

— Gloria Steinem

If the shoe doesn't fit, must we change the foot?

— Gloria Steinem

We are still behaving as if a worker really doesn't have a family because the work pattern really was meant for men…

— Gloria Steinem

The deepest change begins with men raising children as much as women do and women being equal actors in the world outside…

— Gloria Steinem

The first problem for all of us, men and woman, is not to learn, but to unlearn. We are filled with the…

— Gloria Steinem

“It still would be years before I understood the seriousness of my change of view. Much later, I recognized it in "Revolution,"…

— Gloria Steinem

Every revolution begins as consciousness because some group of people has to imagine change.

— Gloria Steinem

Since we're each unique, if we've shared many experiences, then it probably has something to do with power or politics, and if…

— Gloria Steinem

Probably those three things affect the most people: reproductive freedom, freedom from violence, and democratic families. But there may well be someone…

— Gloria Steinem

I believe that change comes from the bottom, not the top.

— Gloria Steinem

Severe opposition is a measure of success (because) one inevitable result of winning a majority change in consciousness is a backlash from…

— Gloria Steinem

Transformation happens in small groups. Each person can speak and all listen.

— Gloria Steinem

I think my role is as a writer, especially, and then also as a speaker, an organizer, and an entre- preneur of…

— Gloria Steinem

The deepest change begins with men raising children as much as women do and women being equal actors in the world outside…

— Gloria Steinem

change starts at the bottom. I think we're disempowered by the idea that it starts at the top, when really change is…

— Gloria Steinem

Clinging to the past is the problem. Embracing change is the answer.

— Gloria Steinem

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

— Gloria Steinem

The first resistance to social change is to say it's not necessary.

— Gloria Steinem

Show me something that is not transformed by the other half of the human race.

— Gloria Steinem

“Altogether I’ve seen enough change to have faith that more will come.”

— Gloria Steinem