1,066 Quotes by Gloria Steinem

You are the leader you’ve been waiting for.

Gender is the remaining caste system that still cuts deep enough, and spreads wide enough, to be confused with the laws of nature. To uncover the difference between what is and what could be, we may need the “Aha!” that comes from exchanging subject for object, the flash of recognition that starts with a smile, the moment of changed viewpoint that turns the world upside down.

I don’t want to die saying but, you know? There’s so much I want to do, so I want more time.

Sadomasochiasm – which we know very well doesn’t exist in societies that don’t have child abuse – is regarded some sort of natural sexual expression.

The art of life is not controlling what happens to us, but using what happens to us.

This is what forty looks like. We’ve been lying so long, who would know?

Don’t worry about your background, whether it’s odd or ordinary, use it, build on it.

Altogether, if I’d been looking at nothing but the media all these years, I would be a much more discouraged person-especially given the notion that only conflict is news, and that objectivity means being evenhandedly negative.

I don’t know if fury can compete with necessity as the mother of invention, but I recommend it.