1,066 Quotes by Gloria Steinem

We’re changing ourselves to fit the world instead of changing the world to fit women.

Women, we tend to become whole people by venturing outside of the home, learning to aspire, to achieve, to deal with conflict – all these qualities that are wrongly called masculine.

All biographers, no matter how sympathetic, end up using their subjects as mirrors to figure themselves out. I don’t want to be anyone’s mirror.

The whole idea is not to figure out what you should do that will matter, but to make each thing you do reflect the values you want, because we don’t know what’s going to matter in the future.

I think we each come out of the womb with some unique way of looking at the world and if we don’t express it, we loose faith in ourselves.

Basically, I feel different from most other women. I feel I don’t have to put on an act. If I’m not feminine enough for someone, I don’t care, because femininity is different in everyone’s mind.

The origins of violence against women by men are not biological. If that were the case, it would exist in every culture. And it doesn’t exist in every culture.

Language can’t solve everything, of course, but it does carry our dreams and our ideas.

It’s obviously a great sign of growth and success that the media no longer try to embody the bigness and diversity of the women’s movement in one person. Only a diverse group can symbolize a movement.