So whatever you want to do, just do it...Making a damn fool of yourself is absolutely essential. — 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
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 Copy Share Image
I want to say to you that there is life and dreams and surprises after 30-and 40, and 50, and 60, and… — Gloria Steinem Copy Share Image
Worry less about solutions from the top or the idea that there is a solution, but try to do whatever you can… — Gloria Steinem Copy Share Image
More and more men are raising children or want to be close to their kids. They don't want to just lead work-obsessed… — Gloria Steinem Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
I think Hefner himself wants to go down in history as a person of sophistication and glamour. But the last person I… — 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
All biographers, no matter how sympathetic, end up using their subjects as mirrors to figure themselves out. I don't want to be… — Gloria Steinem Copy Share Image
I want us to organize, to tell the personal stories that create empathy, which is the most revolutionary emotion. — Gloria Steinem Copy Share Image
We are still in various kinds of patriarchal systems. The very definition of patriarchy is that men control women as the means… — Gloria Steinem Copy Share Image
The women's movement and gay and lesbian movements always come together, and our adversaries are always the same because the male supremacist,… — 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
Women don't want to exchange places with men. Male chauvinists, science-fiction writers and comedians may favor that idea for its shock value,… — Gloria Steinem Copy Share Image
No matter how hard I worked, whatever I accomplished was attributed to my looks. If you're working your ass off, then you… — Gloria Steinem Copy Share Image
I want us to organize, to tell the personal stories that create empathy, which is the most revolutionary emotion. The truth of… — Gloria Steinem Copy Share Image
you never know which thing you do is going to turn out to be important. I'm sure we've all done very small… — Gloria Steinem Copy Share Image
The error that we tend to make is that we think that women's magazines are what editors want and what their readers… — 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 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
Society certainly encourages women to be victims in every way. I mean if we want approval, we have to sing the blues,… — Gloria Steinem Copy Share Image
The phenomenon of the woman who's asked what movie she wants to see, and she says, "I don't know. What do you… — Gloria Steinem Copy Share Image
A majority of Americans want redemption for racism - for our terrible, destructive racist past - and so see a vote for… — Gloria Steinem Copy Share Image
I want to help correct the inaccurate image of immigration in the media. There is an idea that women's issues are over… — Gloria Steinem Copy Share Image
When I'm talking to groups that are all men, we talk about how the masculine role limits them. They often want 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… — Gloria Steinem Copy Share Image
The androcentric, patriarchal cultures, whatever you want to call it, are quite new. So, every economic statement should start with reproduction, not… — Gloria Steinem Copy Share Image
the new women in politics seem to be saying that we already know how to lose, thank you very much. Now we… — Gloria Steinem Copy Share Image
I wouldn't want to generalize, but we still do live in a society that's sexist and racist and addicted to class and… — Gloria Steinem Copy Share Image
The whole idea is not to figure out what you should do that will matter, but to make each thing you do… — Gloria Steinem Copy Share Image
The gender prism is just descending upon us. For instance, when we're girls of nine or 10 we may be climbing trees… — Gloria Steinem Copy Share Image
A lot of the people who are supposed to be enforcing the crime, enforcing the law, are also criminals. They've suppressed something… — 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
