1,066 Quotes by Gloria Steinem

From pacifist to terrorist, each person condemns violence – and then adds one cherished case in which it may be justified.

It was the first time I witnessed the ancient and modern magic of groups in which anyone may speak in turn, everyone must listen, and consensus is more important than time.

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

Women have to learn how to talk as much as we listen. Men have to learn how to listen as much as they talk.

If the men in the room would only think how they would feel graduating with a ‘spinster of arts’ degree they would see how important this is.

Mrs. Greene made me understand the parallels between race and caste – and how women’s bodies were used to perpetuate both. Different prisons. Same key.

Statistically speaking, home is an even more dangerous place for women than the road.

Labeling makes the invisible visible, but it’s limiting. Categories are the enemy of connecting. Link, don’t rank.

I myself cried when I got angry, then became unable to explain why I was angry in the first place. Later I would discover this was endemic among female human beings. Anger is supposed to be “unfeminine”, so we suppress it-until it overflows.