Happens Quotes by Gloria Steinem

What would happen if we listened to children as much as we talked to them?

— Gloria Steinem

A movement happens when people are inspired by somebody, but they do it themselves. You don't wait for someone else. You do…

— Gloria Steinem

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

— Gloria Steinem

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

— Gloria Steinem

What would happen if even one generation were raised with respect and without violence?

— Gloria Steinem

If we have reproductive freedom, that is the ability to decide for ourselves when and whether to have children and what happens…

— Gloria Steinem

I believe a unique core self is born into every human being; the result of millennia of environment and heredity combined in…

— Gloria Steinem

What happens at 50, more or less, you lose what you need to create another person, to sustain another person; you keep…

— 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

I think we spend a lot of time denying our mothers. We understand other women earlier than we understand our mothers because…

— Gloria Steinem

I no longer believe the conservative message that children are naturally selfish and destructive creatures who need civilizing by hierarchies or painful…

— Gloria Steinem

The gender prism is just descending upon us. For instance, when we're girls of nine or 10 we may be climbing trees…

— Gloria Steinem

Children who have been very sadistically abused over the long-term are able to dissociate, some of them are able to dissociate as…

— Gloria Steinem

Any group of people that has been subordinate absorbs the idea of our own subordination, and that it is natural, and comes…

— Gloria Steinem

I have always employed humor, and I think it’s absolutely crucial that we do because, among other things, humor is the only…

— Gloria Steinem

Inside each of us is a unique person resulting from millennia of environment and heredity combined in a way that could never…

— Gloria Steinem

You can't be what you can't see, so it's harder for women to say, "I'm going to be a [presidential] candidate," so…

— Gloria Steinem