Any woman who chooses to behave like a full human being should be warned that the armies of the status quo will treat her as something of a dirty joke. That’s their natural and first weapon. She will need her sisterhood.
—Gloria Steinem
Topics: Sex
Without leaps of imagination, or dreaming, we lose the excitement of possibilities. Dreaming, after all, is a form of planning.
—Gloria Steinem
Empathy is the most radical of human emotions.
—Gloria Steinem
Clinging to the past is the problem. Embracing change is the answer.
—Gloria Steinem
Topics: Change, Past, The Past
The authority of any governing institution must stop at its citizen’s skin.
—Gloria Steinem
Topics: Man
A woman without a man is like a fish without a bicycle.
—Gloria Steinem
Topics: Men & Women, Men, Women
We can tell our values by looking at our checkbook stubs.
—Gloria Steinem
Topics: Money, Value
It is more rewarding to watch money change the world than watch it accumulate.
—Gloria Steinem
Hope is a very unruly emotion.
—Gloria Steinem
Topics: Hope
The act of acting morally is behaving as if everything we do matters.
—Gloria Steinem
Topics: Ethics
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