1,066 Quotes by Gloria Steinem

Without leaps of imagination or dreaming, we lose the excitement of possibilities.

Power is being redefined. Women often explain with care that we mean power to control our lives, but not to dominate others.

Writing is the only thing that when I do it, I don't feel I should be doing something else.

Altogether, if I had to pick one place to hang out anywhere, from New York to Cape Town and Australia to Hong Kong, a bookstore would be it.

Being graded for memorizing male accomplishments with the deep message that we can learn what others do but never do it ourselves.

I sometimes wonder if I am crisscrossing my father's ghostly paths and we are entering same towns or roadside diners or the black ribbons of highways that gleam in the night rain. As if we were images in a time-lapse photograph.

If you find yourself drawn to an event against all logic, go. The universe is telling you something.

No wonder male religious leaders so often say that humans were born in sin—because we were born to female creatures. Only by obeying the rules of the patriarchy can we be reborn through men. No wonder priests and ministers in skirts sprinkle imitation birth fluid over our heads, give us new names, and promise rebirth into everlasting life.

I have yet to hear a man ask for advice on how to combine marriage and a career.