1,066 Quotes by Gloria Steinem

If what's inside your dreams wasn't already real inside you, you couldn't even dream it.

Women are never again going to be mindless coffee-makers or mindless policy-makers in politics.

Work is valued by the social value of the worker.

I'm lucky I don't make my living in front of the camera.

One act of violence takes four generations to heal.

Unless we include a job as part of every citizen's right to autonomy and personal fulfillment, women will continue to be vulnerable to someone else's idea of what need is.

When I was growing up, you were supposed to marry and therefore didn't plan ahead. Planning ahead is one of the few reliable measures of class in the sense that rich people plan for generations forward and poor people plan for Saturday night, and by that measure, women have been lower class. We were less likely to plan ahead because we're more likely to think that who we marry and our children are going to dictate our plans.

If you're going to have a male dominant system, to maintain the system, you have to teach men to dominate.

We're communal animals. If we're by ourselves, we can feel wrong and crazy and out of step with society. We really need those talking circles.