1,066 Quotes by Gloria Steinem

A journey - whether it's to the corner grocery or through life - is supposed to have a beginning, middle, and end, right? Well, the road is not like that at all. It's the very illogic and the juxtaposed differences of the road - combined with our search for meaning - that make travel so addictive.

I like to believe that the road is sharpening my mind and lengthening my life with surprise.

I can go on the road - and I can come home. I come home - because I'm free to leave. Each way of being is more valued int he presence of the other. This balance between making camp and following the seasons is both very ancient and very new. We all need both.

I took a part-time editing job to pay the rent. It was work I could do at home, but when suddenly I was expected to spend two days a week in the office, I quit, bought an ice cream cone, and walked the sunny streets of Manhattan.

After all, hope is a form of planning.

When people ask me why I still have hope and energy after all these years, I always say: Because I travel.

Even migrating birds know that nature doesn't demand a choice between nesting and flight.

It's time to leave. There is so much out there to do and say and listen to. I can go on the road, because I can come home. I come home, because I am free to leave.

Altogether, I can't imagine technology replacing bookstores completely, any more than movies about a country replace going there.