1,066 Quotes by Gloria Steinem

We are so different, yet so much the same.

Women fear endangering men’s approval so much, we don’t even wait for them to say no. Or else we protect them, even if it means saying no to ourselves.

Will we get to the point that learning sign language is a part of literacy? That knowing both an audible and a physical language is routine?

You can travel without traveling, and you can not travel – yet travel. Being on the road is a state of mind.

I’m not sure that it’s up to me to sum up what I’ve done with it in the past. I’m not sure there’s a way of knowing what we have done that is useful or important.

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

People say, ‘Oh, you’ve sacrificed so much, now’s the time to do something for yourself.’ I mean, please – that is so wrong. I don’t think I’ve sacrificed one f-king thing.

Writing is the only thing that, when I do it, I don’t feel I should be doing something else.

If you want people to listen to you, you have to listen to them. If you hope people will change how they live, you have to know how they live. If you want people to see you, you have to sit down with them eye-to-eye.