1,066 Quotes by Gloria Steinem

Nature doesn’t move in a straight line, and as part of nature, neither do we.

It’s not that women are less corruptible than men are, it’s that women have had less chance to become corrupt.

MY LAST HOPE IS to open up the road – literally. So far it’s been overwhelmingly masculine turf. Men embody adventure, women embody hearth and home, and that has been pretty much it.

Change seems recognizable only after it’s happened, like putting one’s foot down for a familiar stair – and it’s not there.

Most writers write to say something about other people – and it doesn’t last. Good writers write to find out about themselves – and it lasts forever.

It’s an incredible con job when you think about it, to believe something now in exchange for something after death. Even corporations with their reward systems don’t try to make it posthumous.

Like so many women, I was living out the unlived life of my mother, so I wouldn’t be her. But the price I paid was that I distanced myself internally. I wasn’t as close to her then as I nowadays, in retrospect, wish I had been.

When you say something in a wrong group – it will never be right, so you can not say anything wrong, when you don’t belong to a group.

We’ll never solve the feminization of power until we solve the masculinity of wealth.