1,066 Quotes by Gloria Steinem

Anything can be used for or against the welfare of women - or the welfare of anyone - depending on who controls it.

We all have good instincts unless they're beaten out of us or shamed out of us in childhood.

People waste more time waiting for someone to take charge of their lives than they do in any other pursuit.

Whatever a 'superior' group has will be used to justify its superiority, and whatever an 'inferior' group has will be used to justify its plight. Black men were given poorly paid jobs because they were said to be 'stronger' than white men, while all women were relegated to poorly paid jobs because they were said to be 'weaker.

Women can be vivacious. We are allowed more varieties of facial expression and gestures. Men must be rocklike.

The point is less what we choose than that we have the power to make a choice.

As for the American child's classic problem - too much mother, too little father - that would be cured by an equalization of parental responsibility.

A movement happens when people are inspired by somebody, but they do it themselves. You don't wait for someone else. You do it yourself.

Nature doesn't move in a straight line, and as part of nature, neither do we.