I started out life as a writer, and writers write in part because they don't want to talk. — Gloria Steinem Copy Share Image
Every social justice movement that I know of has come out of people sitting in small groups, telling their life stories, and… — Gloria Steinem Copy Share Image
Little girls do not wake up in the morning and say "I dream of being a prostitute." It is a terrible, terrible… — Gloria Steinem Copy Share Image
Anyone who has ever experienced dehumanized life on welfare or any other confidence-shaking dependency knows that a paid job may be preferable… — Gloria Steinem Copy Share Image
I believe that transgender people, including those who have transitioned, are living out real, authentic lives. Those lives should be celebrated, not… — Gloria Steinem Copy Share Image
I would write about issues and people I met along the way, but not about the process and the life of being… — Gloria Steinem Copy Share Image
“The word 'still' has entered my life. People say to me, 'You're still traveling, you're still wearing blue jeans.” — Gloria Steinem Copy Share Image
No, I'll take responsibility for my own life, I am going to make a decision. And you know, to this day, I… — Gloria Steinem Copy Share Image
Too much of our lives corresponds to the 'lost-wallet' theory of life. You lose something, spend a long time finding it, and… — Gloria Steinem Copy Share Image
The art of life is not controlling what happens to us, but using what happens to us — Gloria Steinem Copy Share Image
I didn't go to school a full year until I was 11 or 12, so I lived in books. I really was… — Gloria Steinem Copy Share Image
... we've allowed a youth-centered culture to leave us so estranged from our future selves that, when asked about the years beyondfifty,… — Gloria Steinem Copy Share Image
I want to say to you that there is life and dreams and surprises after 30-and 40, and 50, and 60, and… — Gloria Steinem Copy Share Image
The point of the journey is not just healing. It's also recovering the truest, most spontaneous, joyful, and creative core of ourselves. — Gloria Steinem Copy Share Image
It is true for me, as for so many countless others, that librarians saved my life, my internal life. — Gloria Steinem Copy Share Image
A lot of my generation are living out the un-lived lives of our mothers. — Gloria Steinem Copy Share Image
I was rescued by librarians. It was librarians who said 'maybe you would like to read The Hardy Boys as well as… — Gloria Steinem Copy Share Image
Life after 50 or 60 is itself another country, as different as adolescence is from childhood, or as adulthood is from adolescence… — Gloria Steinem Copy Share Image
Like so many women, I was living out the unlived life of my mother - so I wouldn't be her. But the… — Gloria Steinem Copy Share Image
Karla Jay's intimate account of life in the early years of feminism and gay liberation is as irresistible as a novel, but… — Gloria Steinem Copy Share Image
“We understand that being able to help dependent children find what they need can be a gift in itself. Why shouldn’t we… — Gloria Steinem Copy Share Image
As an activist, you do find yourself directed more toward public action. But I've always tried to use stories from my own… — Gloria Steinem Copy Share Image
The most obvious ones inspiring me are probably women in political life. There are also many women in artistic endeavors, but if… — 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 Image
Nothing will happen automatically. Change depends on what you and I do every day. — Gloria Steinem Copy Share Image
Women are never again going to be mindless coffee-makers or mindless policy-makers in politics. — Gloria Steinem Copy Share Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
I started out life as a writer, and writers write in part because they don't want to talk. — Gloria Steinem Copy Share Image
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 Image
“Part of traveling over years means coming back to the same place and knowing it for the first time.” — Gloria Steinem Copy Share Image
