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
I think that part of everybody's success is due to their looks, but it just works in different ways. If you're whatever… — 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
Every revolution begins as consciousness because some group of people has to imagine change. You have to have the idea of change… — Gloria Steinem Copy Share Image
The original languages didn't even have he and she. They didn't have concepts of masculine and feminine. People were people. And the… — Gloria Steinem Copy Share Image
... the art of politics is to be ahead of your time--about six months will do it. Any more than that, and… — 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
A movement is only composed of people moving. To feel its warmth and motion around us is the end as well as… — Gloria Steinem Copy Share Image
Don't listen to me. Listen to yourself ... People often ask me at this age, 'Who am I passing the torch to?'… — 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
There are two types of people in the world, those who say 'there are two types of people in the world' and… — 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
There are many more women who identify as unique people as well as mothers, or instead of as mothers, than there used… — Gloria Steinem Copy Share Image
Obviously, there is much similarity among the challenges of transgender people and all women - from health care to harassment to discrimination… — Gloria Steinem Copy Share Image
When I'm talking to people, I find myself quoting the three organizing rules of Black Lives Matter. Black Lives Matter was initiated… — Gloria Steinem Copy Share Image
America is an enormous frosted cupcake in the middle of millions of starving people. — Gloria Steinem Copy Share Image
The road itself is informative, because it forces you to respond spontaneously and to encounter the unexpected. It forces you to reassess… — Gloria Steinem Copy Share Image
The mark, to me, of a constructive argument is one that looks at a specific problem and says, 'What shall we do… — Gloria Steinem Copy Share Image
People say, 'Oh, you've sacrificed so much, now's the time to do something for yourself.' I mean, please - that is so… — Gloria Steinem Copy Share Image
If you love your work, I'm not sure you have hobbies. I try to say no to things that other people could… — Gloria Steinem Copy Share Image
If you look at the public opinion polls even, support for all the issues, people who self-identify as feminists are as least… — Gloria Steinem Copy Share Image
Because we are communal creatures, if you're with people who think you're smart, you're smart, and if they think you're dumb, you're… — Gloria Steinem Copy Share Image
I think we all have the power to name ourselves. I try to call people what it is they wish to be… — 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
