1,066 Quotes by Gloria Steinem

I could leave—because I could return. I could return—because I knew adventure lay just beyond an open door. Instead of either/or, I discovered a whole world of and.

Her hope was to preserve what she called The Way, to keep it alive, for that future moment when the current obsession with excess and hierarchy imploded. Wilma said many Native people believed that the earth as a living organism would just one day shrug off the human species that was destroying it—and start over. In a less cataclysmic vision, humans would realize that we are killing our home and each other, and seek out The Way. That’s why Native people were guarding it.

I think we each come out of the womb with some unique way of looking at the world and if we don't express it, we loose faith in ourselves.

Each way of being is more valued in the presence of the other. This balance between making camp and following the seasons is both very ancient and very new. We all need both.

Power can be taken but not given. The process of the taking is empowerment in itself.

Without leaps of imagination or dreaming, we lose the excitement of possibilities. Dreaming, after all is a form of planning.

The art of life is not controlling what happens to us, but using what happens to us

You can travel without traveling, and you can not travel -- yet travel. Being on the road is a state of mind.

Artists strive to free this true and spontaneous self in their work. Creativity, meditation are ways of freeing an inner voice.