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 Copy Share Image
What would happen if we listened to children as much as we talked to them? — Gloria Steinem Copy Share Image
Transformation happens in small groups. Each person can speak and all listen. — Gloria Steinem Copy Share Image
What would happen if even one generation were raised with respect and without violence? — Gloria Steinem Copy Share Image
Nothing will happen automatically. Change depends on what you and I do every day. — Gloria Steinem Copy Share Image
If we have reproductive freedom, that is the ability to decide for ourselves when and whether to have children and what happens… — Gloria Steinem Copy Share Image
What happens at 50, more or less, you lose what you need to create another person, to sustain another person; you keep… — Gloria Steinem Copy Share Image
I believe a unique core self is born into every human being; the result of millennia of environment and heredity combined in… — Gloria Steinem Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
I think we spend a lot of time denying our mothers. We understand other women earlier than we understand our mothers because… — Gloria Steinem Copy Share Image
I no longer believe the conservative message that children are naturally selfish and destructive creatures who need civilizing by hierarchies or painful… — Gloria Steinem Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
Inside each of us is a unique person resulting from millennia of environment and heredity combined in a way that could never… — Gloria Steinem Copy Share Image
Any group of people that has been subordinate absorbs the idea of our own subordination, and that it is natural, and comes… — Gloria Steinem Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
People waste more time waiting for someone to take charge of their lives than they do in any other pursuit. — Gloria Steinem Copy Share
Nothing will happen automatically. Change depends on what you and I do every day. — Gloria Steinem Copy Share
Women are never again going to be mindless coffee-makers or mindless policy-makers in politics. — Gloria Steinem Copy Share
The state of female artists is very good. But the very definition of art has been biased in that 'art' was what men did… — Gloria Steinem Copy Share
We will live to see the day that St. Patrick's Cathedral is a child-care center and the pope is no longer a disgrace to… — Gloria Steinem Copy Share
Just when you thought multi-nationals and crazed consumerism were too big to fight, along comes Naomi Klein with facts, spirit, and news of successful… — Gloria Steinem Copy Share
I don't know Beyoncé, but I have the impression that she's sincere, that she really is a feminist and wanted to put the word… — Gloria Steinem Copy Share
I started out life as a writer, and writers write in part because they don't want to talk. — Gloria Steinem Copy Share
Sadomasochiasm - which we know very well doesn't exist in societies that don't have child abuse - is regarded some sort of natural sexual… — Gloria Steinem Copy Share
“Part of traveling over years means coming back to the same place and knowing it for the first time.” — Gloria Steinem Copy Share
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 Copy Share
I think that part of everybody's success is due to their looks, but it just works in different ways. If you're whatever society calls… — Gloria Steinem Copy Share
![“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 we need to go to women who would be good candidates and say, "You would be a good candidate and I'll help you." It's not a passive question, it's not when will it happen, but an…” quote by Gloria Steinem](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/d74/gloria-steinem-277_active_you-can-t-be-what-you-can-t-see-so-it-s_3207162.jpg)
