1,066 Quotes by Gloria Steinem

The future depends entirely on what each of us does every day; a movement is only people moving.

Any insistence on equal pay is crucial and any redefinition of work to include caregiving work so that it also has an economic value, at least at replacement level, that's crucial. So change does come from the bottom up, and it will come from girls and women and men who understand that for us all to be human beings instead of being grouped by gender is good for them, too.

If you have two groups of people and you say one is inferior to the other, which is a lie, then the only way to maintain the lie is through violence or the threat of violence.

You can compel fear. You can even make someone feel they're in love if they're isolated and dependent for long enough. But laughter is free.

Intelligence without character is a dangerous thing.

I don't think there's any country that has equal pay, not even Sweden or Iceland.

There are two types of people in the world, those who say 'there are two types of people in the world' and those who don't.

Women tend to be conservative in youth and get more radical as they get older because they lose power with age. So, if a young woman is not a feminist, I say, just wait.

Once we give up searching for approval we often find it easier to earn respect.