1,066 Quotes by Gloria Steinem

More than poverty, more than degree of education, religion, access to natural resources, even degree of democracy - violence against females is the biggest indicator of whether a country will be violent in itself or be willing to use military violence against another country.

Planning ahead is a measure of class. The rich and even the middle class plan for future generations, but the poor can plan ahead only a few weeks or days

The future depends entirely on what each of us does every day.

Women are always saying, 'We can do anything that men can do.' But men should be saying, 'We can do anything that women can do.'

Without leaps of imagination or dreaming, we lose the excitement of possibilities. Dreaming, after all, is a form of planning.

Burnout is a way of telling you that your form of activism was perhaps not very full circle.

I'm not sure feminism should require an adjective. Believing in the full social, political, and economic quality of women, which is what the dictionary says “feminism” means, is enough to make a revolution in itself.

Perhaps we share stories in much the same spirit that explorers share maps, hoping to speed each other's journey, but knowing that the journey we make will be our own.

Whenever one person stands up and says, ‘Wait a minute, this is wrong,’ it helps other people do the same.