Time Quotes by Gloria Steinem

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

— Gloria Steinem

Clinging to the past is the problem. Embracing change is the answer.

— Gloria Steinem

Women have always been an equal part of the past. We just havent been a part of history.

— Gloria Steinem

Fashion in the past meant conforming and losing oneself. Fashion in the present means being individual and finding oneself.

— Gloria Steinem

I never quite trust futurists because I think they're kind of telling us what they think our future should be.

— Gloria Steinem

People waste more time waiting for someone to take charge of their lives than they do in any other pursuit.

— Gloria Steinem

If I read the word 'problematize' one more time, I'm going to vomit.

— Gloria Steinem

Republicans may learn they can't appeal to right-wing patriarchs and most women at the same time.

— 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

One of the main problems of our time is that men are deprived of their human qualities that are wrongly called feminine,…

— Gloria Steinem

Why are solutions not just as newsworthy as problems? The notion that hostility is necessary all the time to create interest and…

— Gloria Steinem

I feel this is very much our spiritual and political duty to be part of every peace table, it has often been…

— Gloria Steinem

Gratitude never radicalized anybody. I don't care if they recognize the past, I just want them to get angry about the present…

— Gloria Steinem

I'm not sure that it's up to me to sum up what I've done with it in the past. I'm not sure…

— Gloria Steinem

I did not see any way that I could possibly give birth to someone else and also give birth to myself. Far…

— Gloria Steinem

Too much of our lives corresponds to the 'lost-wallet' theory of life. You lose something, spend a long time finding it, and…

— Gloria Steinem

I think we spend a lot of time denying our mothers. We understand other women earlier than we understand our mothers because…

— Gloria Steinem

I spend a lot of time on college campuses, and I don't quite understand where the idea comes from that young women…

— Gloria Steinem

What I think we need to do is infuse everyday and every action with the kind of values we hope will be…

— Gloria Steinem

“As a group who can never afford the expensive fiction of having a nation—and whose bodies suffer from nationalism by being used…

— Gloria Steinem

Writers - we're a little crazy about how much we care about it. We spend a lot of time fussing. At least,…

— Gloria Steinem

When the past dies, there is mourning, but when the future dies our imaginations are compelled to carry it on.

— Gloria Steinem

“Part of traveling over years means coming back to the same place and knowing it for the first time.”

— Gloria Steinem

I don't want to die saying but, you know? There's so much I want to do, so I want more time.

— Gloria Steinem

Frequently people just vote for the party out of power because they're disappointed or angry at what is happening at the moment.

— Gloria Steinem

... the art of politics is to be ahead of your time--about six months will do it. Any more than that, and…

— Gloria Steinem

I think of the future in two ways - survival plus moving forward. Under survival, I would put all the efforts to…

— Gloria Steinem

I was never against marriage per se. Before feminism, I didn't think you had any choice. In fact, for a long time…

— 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

“It wasn’t the victory of one man or the death of another. It was the death of the future, and of our…

— Gloria Steinem

This country can no longer afford to choose our leaders from a talent pool limited by sex, race, money, powerful fathers and…

— Gloria Steinem

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

A majority of Americans want redemption for racism - for our terrible, destructive racist past - and so see a vote for…

— Gloria Steinem

Paradoxically, only journeying backward in time and reentering the home we once knew allows us to go forward to the home we've…

— Gloria Steinem

The moment we find the reason behind an emotion Â… the wall is breached, and the positive memories it has kept from…

— Gloria Steinem

I think we acquire habits of mind when we're little, and I lived in the future because I was always imagining being…

— Gloria Steinem

I'm clearly not frightened of flying because I fly all the time, but every once in a while I do, as we…

— Gloria Steinem

The whole idea is not to figure out what you should do that will matter, but to make each thing you do…

— Gloria Steinem