1,066 Quotes by Gloria Steinem

Feminism began to dawn on my brain belatedly in life.

I think we acquire habits of mind when we're little, and I lived in the future because I was always imagining being a grown-up, when I could get out.

When I'm talking to people, I find myself quoting the three organizing rules of Black Lives Matter. Black Lives Matter was initiated by three young women, and too few people know that. But, anyway, the first one is lead with love. The second is low ego, high impact. The third is move with the speed of trust. I must say those make me feel very hopeful for the future.

To me, the model of success is not linear. Success is completing the full circle of yourself.

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."

... members of a powerful group are raised to believe (however illogically) that whatever affects it will also affect them. On theother hand, members of less powerful groups are raised to believe (however illogically) that each individual can escape the group's fate. Thus, cohesion is encouraged on the one hand, and disunity is fostered on the other.

We're never going to have democratic countries or peaceful countries until we have democratic or peaceful families.

For twenty years, not a week went by when I wasn't on a plane.

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