Inspirational Quotes by Gloria Steinem

Writing keeps me from believing everything I read.

— Gloria Steinem

I can't mate in captivity.

— Gloria Steinem

Logic has nothing to do with oppression.

— Gloria Steinem

Helping begins with listening.

— Gloria Steinem

Prejudice marks a mental landmine.

— Gloria Steinem

God knows (She knows) that women try.

— Gloria Steinem

We teach what we need to learn.

— Gloria Steinem

Perhaps the worst thing about suffering is that it finally hardens the hearts of those around it.

— Gloria Steinem

Rich People plan for three generations Poor people plan for Saturday night

— Gloria Steinem

A person who has experienced something is almost always far more expert on it than are the experts.

— Gloria Steinem

It's a fundamental human right to decide to have children or not to have children.

— Gloria Steinem

Anybody who has ever met a baby knows there is already a person in there.

— Gloria Steinem

There is a naive belief that injustice only had to be pointed out in order to be cured.

— Gloria Steinem

Superwoman is the adversary of the women's movement.

— Gloria Steinem

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

— Gloria Steinem

It's the biggest economic influence in a woman's life whether she can decide when and whether to have children or not.

— Gloria Steinem

The purpose of feminism is to free the uniqueness of the individual and to understand that inside each of us is a…

— Gloria Steinem

Men were valued by what they did, women by how they looked and then by what their husbands did, and all of…

— Gloria Steinem

Paradoxically, only journeying backward in time and reentering the home we once knew allows us to go forward to the home we've…

— Gloria Steinem

This is the wisdom: If we bless our bodies, they will bless us.

— Gloria Steinem

The point is less what we choose than that we have the power to make a choice.

— Gloria Steinem

Feminism is about friends and sisters and community.

— Gloria Steinem

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

— Gloria Steinem

Overthrowing capitalism is too small for us. We must overthrow the whole...patriarch!

— Gloria Steinem

How can I combine career and family?

— Gloria Steinem

I am not now, and never have been, a girlfriend of Henry Kissinger.

— Gloria Steinem

It's never to late for a happy childhood.

— Gloria Steinem

So why is the sex barrier not taken as seriously as the racial one?

— Gloria Steinem

The act of acting morally is behaving as if everything we do matters.

— Gloria Steinem

There is no such thing as Superwoman. You cant have everything if you do everything.

— Gloria Steinem

Women have always been an equal part of the past. We just havent been a part of history.

— Gloria Steinem

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

— Gloria Steinem

If women could sleep their way to the top, there'd be a lot more women at the top.

— Gloria Steinem

At my graduation, I thought we had to marry what we wished to become. Now you are becoming the men you once…

— Gloria Steinem

If what's inside your dreams wasn't already real inside you, you couldn't even dream it.

— Gloria Steinem

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

— Gloria Steinem