I think that we need to change the culture, not blame the people that are playing the only game that exists. — 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 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
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
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
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
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
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 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
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 Copy Share Image
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 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 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 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
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
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
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
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
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
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
... 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 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
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
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
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
We all know as we travel around this country or around the world that there are huge problems, and also people doing… — 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
People waste more time waiting for someone to take charge of their lives than they do in any other pursuit. — Gloria Steinem Copy Share
Nothing will happen automatically. Change depends on what you and I do every day. — Gloria Steinem Copy Share
Women are never again going to be mindless coffee-makers or mindless policy-makers in politics. — Gloria Steinem Copy Share
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
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
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
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
I started out life as a writer, and writers write in part because they don't want to talk. — Gloria Steinem Copy Share
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
“Part of traveling over years means coming back to the same place and knowing it for the first time.” — Gloria Steinem Copy Share
If you say, I'm for equal pay, that's a reform. But if you say. I'm a feminist, that's a transformation of society. — Gloria Steinem Copy Share
I think that part of everybody's success is due to their looks, but it just works in different ways. If you're whatever society calls… — Gloria Steinem Copy Share
