Every revolution begins as consciousness because some group of people has to imagine change. — Gloria Steinem Copy Share Image
Rich People plan for three generations Poor people plan for Saturday night — Gloria Steinem Copy Share Image
The future depends entirely on what each of us does every day; a movement is only people moving. — Gloria Steinem Copy Share Image
Being misunderstood by people whose opinions you value is absolutely the most painful. — Gloria Steinem Copy Share Image
I hate when people say, "Have fun at the press preview." Fun is talking to you. — Gloria Steinem Copy Share Image
America is an enormous frosted cupcake in the middle of millions of starving people. — Gloria Steinem Copy Share Image
Most of us are living out the unlived lives of our mothers, because they were not able to become the unique people… — 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
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
You have no choice but to live in the present, if you're really being open to events and people as they come… — Gloria Steinem Copy Share Image
There were never that many women stand-up comics in the past because the power to make people laugh is also a power… — 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
The kind of power I want is the power to persuade. But I do not want the power to tell other people… — Gloria Steinem Copy Share Image
I feel that the people I see in the media are sometimes more real than I am, which is utter bullshit. — Gloria Steinem Copy Share Image
Am I a capitalist? No. Why would I be a capitalist? I have no capital. Most people have no capital. But to… — Gloria Steinem Copy Share Image
At my age, in this still hierarchical time, people often ask me if I’m “passing the torch.” I explain that I’m keeping… — Gloria Steinem Copy Share Image
Probably those three things affect the most people: reproductive freedom, freedom from violence, and democratic families. But there may well be someone… — 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
The patterns that are normalized in the family - the whole idea that some people cook and some people eat, that some… — 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
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 was not considered beautiful before I was a feminist. I was a pretty girl before, but suddenly, after I was publicly… — 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
I can only tell you the kind of power I want, which is the power to persuade. But I do not want… — Gloria Steinem Copy Share Image
I think my role is as a writer, especially, and then also as a speaker, an organizer, and an entre- preneur of… — Gloria Steinem Copy Share Image
If you listen to the Catholic bishops you would think that Catholics are against contraception and legal abortion, but if you ask… — 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
I don't remember being thought of as good-looking until I became a feminist. It's more of a comment on people's expectations than… — Gloria Steinem Copy Share Image
When I was growing up, you were supposed to marry and therefore didn't plan ahead. Planning ahead is one of the few… — Gloria Steinem Copy Share Image
There's no such thing as post-feminism. It's like saying post-democracy, excuse me, what does that mean? We're nowhere near equality, so the… — Gloria Steinem Copy Share Image
Our children are the only people on whom we can safely take revenge for what was done to us. — Gloria Steinem Copy Share Image
Women, we tend to become whole people by venturing outside of the home, learning to aspire, to achieve, to deal with conflict… — Gloria Steinem Copy Share Image
It's a big gift to be recognizable as part of something that matters to people, but that's not the same as 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
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
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
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
