1,066 Quotes by Gloria Steinem

The old languages – at least the ones I know – don’t have gender. They don’t have gendered pronouns. There’s no “he” and “she.” A human being is a human being.

I also thought suddenly of the wisdom of my speaking partner, the late generous, outrageous, matchless Flo Kennedy. She found value in conflict, no matter what. “The purpose of ass-kicking is not that your ass gets kicked at the right time or for the right reason,” she often explained. “It’s to keep your ass sensitive. ” Remembering her words made me laugh out loud.

If you love your work, I’m not sure you have hobbies. I try to say no to things that other people could do and only say yes to things that only I could do.

No, I’ll take responsibility for my own life, I am going to make a decision. And you know, to this day, I would raise flags on all public buildings to celebrate the chance I had to make that decision.

Feminism is memory.

We have to stop arresting prostitutes and not arresting traffickers and pimps. It’s absurd. We’re arresting the victim or the survivor and not the oppressor.

Karla Jay’s intimate account of life in the early years of feminism and gay liberation is as irresistible as a novel, but as credible, humorous, and unexpected as real life.

Sometimes I think the only real division into two is between people who divide everything into two and those who don’t.

If time is relative, doing new things actually makes us feel we’ve lived a longer life.