... 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
Every revolution begins as consciousness because some group of people has to imagine change. — 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
In the late '60s, people were saying we need power to, not power over. Power to do, accomplish, create, not power over… — 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's really a shortage of good freelance writers. ... There are a lot of talented people who are very erratic, so either… — 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
Being misunderstood by people whose opinions you value is absolutely the most painful. — 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 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
Reporters immediately push their interviewees into the most extreme version by saying in a shocked tone, 'Well, are you saying that ..."… — Gloria Steinem Copy Share Image
We know from many forms of suffering that what is important first is a witness - people want to know that someone… — Gloria Steinem Copy Share Image
People are quite clear in viewing nuns as the servants and the teachers and the supporters of the poor. You contrast that… — 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
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
Perhaps McCain has opposed affirmative action for so long that he doesn't know it's about inviting more people to meet standards, not… — Gloria Steinem Copy Share Image
I'm more often confronted by women who come from religious traditions and don't feel that they have a place in the feminist… — 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
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
I hate when people say, "Have fun at the press preview." Fun is talking to you. — 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
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
Obviously there is no such thing as race, and in many ways, sex is a continuum, not a binary. So it doesn't… — Gloria Steinem Copy Share Image
Most writers write to say something about other people - and it doesn't last. Good writers write to find out about themselves… — Gloria Steinem Copy Share Image
If you have two groups of people and you say one is inferior to the other, which is a lie, then the… — 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
