People Quotes by Gloria Steinem

“When new people guide us, we see a new country.”

— Gloria Steinem

Being misunderstood by people whose opinions you value is absolutely the most painful.

— Gloria Steinem

The future depends entirely on what each of us does every day; a movement is only people moving.

— Gloria Steinem

Every revolution begins as consciousness because some group of people has to imagine change.

— Gloria Steinem

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

— Gloria Steinem

It's heartbreaking to watch people working against themselves.

— Gloria Steinem

Our children are the only people on whom we can safely take revenge for what was done to us.

— Gloria Steinem

I hate when people say, "Have fun at the press preview." Fun is talking to you.

— Gloria Steinem

Women, we tend to become whole people by venturing outside of the home, learning to aspire, to achieve, to deal with conflict…

— Gloria Steinem

I feel that the people I see in the media are sometimes more real than I am, which is utter bullshit.

— Gloria Steinem

The kind of power I want is the power to persuade. But I do not want the power to tell other people…

— Gloria Steinem

A movement is only composed of people moving. To feel its warmth and motion around us is the end as well as…

— Gloria Steinem

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

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

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

The mark, to me, of a constructive argument is one that looks at a specific problem and says, 'What shall we do…

— Gloria Steinem

I wasn't even in a newspaper office where I was getting assignments in competition with other people. I remember earlier, though, that…

— Gloria Steinem

I think I've wasted some of my time, but used most of it well, and have realized that my life is not…

— Gloria Steinem

The road itself is informative, because it forces you to respond spontaneously and to encounter the unexpected. It forces you to reassess…

— Gloria Steinem

We all know as we travel around this country or around the world that there are huge problems, and also people doing…

— Gloria Steinem

Probably those three things affect the most people: reproductive freedom, freedom from violence, and democratic families. But there may well be someone…

— Gloria Steinem

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

Am I a capitalist? No. Why would I be a capitalist? I have no capital. Most people have no capital. But to…

— Gloria Steinem

I was not considered beautiful before I was a feminist. I was a pretty girl before, but suddenly, after I was publicly…

— Gloria Steinem

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

If you listen to the Catholic bishops you would think that Catholics are against contraception and legal abortion, but if you ask…

— Gloria Steinem

I think my role is as a writer, especially, and then also as a speaker, an organizer, and an entre- preneur of…

— Gloria Steinem

I can only tell you the kind of power I want, which is the power to persuade. But I do not want…

— Gloria Steinem

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

I no longer believe the conservative message that children are naturally selfish and destructive creatures who need civilizing by hierarchies or painful…

— Gloria Steinem

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

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

Children are short people. Some you like, some you don't.

— Gloria Steinem

Because when some people are invisible, everyone suffers.

— Gloria Steinem

America is an enormous frosted cupcake in the middle of millions of starving people.

— Gloria Steinem

I would write about issues and people I met along the way, but not about the process and the life of being…

— Gloria Steinem

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

There are many more women who identify as unique people as well as mothers, or instead of as mothers, than there used…

— Gloria Steinem

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

Every social justice movement that I know of has come out of people sitting in small groups, telling their life stories, and…

— Gloria Steinem