1,066 Quotes by Gloria Steinem

In Native spiritualities, there is often a belief that we cannot pray unless we’ve laughed.

Male silence is not the same as listening.

I’m not sure we can understand another country if we don’t understand our own.

The phenomenon of the woman who’s asked what movie she wants to see, and she says, “I don’t know. What do you want to see?” It’s a tiny version of a big tendency. Women need to say, “This is what I want.”

We must not only vote but fight to vote. The voting booth really is the one place on earth where the least powerful equal the powerful. p176.

It’s the biggest economic influence in a woman’s life whether she can decide when and whether to have children or not.

Nearly all of the journalistic eulogies that followed Monroe’s death were written by men. So are almost all of the more than forty books that have been published about Monroe.

In many languages, even the word for human being is “one who goes on migrations.” Progress itself is a word rooted in a seasonal journey. Perhaps our need to escape into media is a misplaced desire for the journey.

If we’re isolated, we come to feel powerless when we’re not.