1,066 Quotes by Gloria Steinem

Inside, each of us has a purple motorcycle.

In the late ’60s, people were saying we need power to, not power over. Power to do, accomplish, create, not power over other people.

You may very well fall in love with somebody who makes less money, who’s younger than you, who weighs less than you.

White people should have sued for being culturally deprived in a white ghetto. When humans are ranked instead of linked, everyone loses.

More than a third of all the men, women, and children on this march perished from cold, starvation, and disease. Thanks to President Andrew Jackson’s Indian Removal Act, Cherokee land was left to white farmers who used it to grow cotton with slave labor and to mine gold.

I’m not black on Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday, and a woman on Thursday, Friday and Saturday.

If women could sleep their way to the top, there’d be a lot more women at the top.

Patriarchy 101 would have you believe otherwise, but you know – that’s just not true. Those inequalities are recipes for resentment. And, yes, the formula isn’t perfect yet. We don’t all have that. But we’re trying.

I’ve learned from these events that self-esteem plays as much a part in the destiny of nations as it does in the lives of individuals; that self-hatred leads to the need either to dominate or to be dominated; that citizens who refuse to obey anything but their own conscience can transform their countries; in short, that self-esteem is the basis of any real democracy.