Writing Quotes by Gloria Steinem

I started out life as a writer, and writers write in part because they don't want to talk.

— Gloria Steinem

Writing keeps me from believing everything I read.

— Gloria Steinem

“To write simply is as difficult as to be good.” Somerset Maugham.”

— 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

We choose to be writers because we don't want to talk.

— Gloria Steinem

Writers are notorious for using any reason to keep from working: over-researching, retyping, going to meetings, waxing the floors - anything.

— Gloria Steinem

You do have all five sense when you're in a room together. You communicate and understand each other in a much deeper…

— Gloria Steinem

I haven't been in a job situation in which I was competing with other women. As a writer, you're more likely to…

— Gloria Steinem

There's really a shortage of good freelance writers. ... There are a lot of talented people who are very erratic, so either…

— 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

“Writing is the only thing that, when I do it, I don't feel I should be doing anything else.”

— 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

For me, writing is the only thing that passes the three tests of metier: (1) when I'm doing it, I don't feel…

— 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

Writing is always harder than talking.

— 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

In every century, there are a handful of writers who help the human race to evolve. Andrea is one of them.

— Gloria Steinem

I began to understand with a terrible sureness that we teach what we need to learn and write what we need to…

— Gloria Steinem

Most writers write to say something about other people - and it doesn't last. Good writers write to find out about themselves…

— Gloria Steinem

As a writer and as a human being, Susan Dworkin has always had the ability to draw us into new dreams of…

— Gloria Steinem

I continued for too long to do things that I already knew how to do, or to write stories that I was…

— Gloria Steinem

I do not like to write - I like to have written.

— Gloria Steinem

I'd just begun to be taken seriously as a freelance writer, but after the Playboy article, I mostly got requests to go…

— Gloria Steinem

I don't like writing. I like having written.

— Gloria Steinem

“Nobody cares about feminist academic writing. That's careerism. These poor women in academia have to talk this silly language that nobody can…

— Gloria Steinem

As a profession, freelance writing is notoriously insecure. That's the first argument in its favor. For many reasons, a few of them…

— 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

Writing is the only thing that, when I do it, I don't feel I should be doing something else.

— Gloria Steinem