1,066 Quotes by Gloria Steinem

Don’t write when you’re angry and under deadline, with time to test it only on friends who know what you mean, not on strangers who don’t.

I wouldn’t want to generalize, but we still do live in a society that’s sexist and racist and addicted to class and has the ridiculous idea that if you have money you’re smarter, which Donald Trump by himself should be able to disprove.

I also noticed that humor was even more of a survival tactic here than in most women’s groups. As one asked: What did Columbus call primitive? Answer: Equal women.

Women have two choices: Either she’s a feminist or a masochist.

I definitely think men can be leaders. I see an analogy in the case of what helped me think about racism, which was to find parallels with sexism. In other words, I don’t think I was such a great ally until I got mad on my own behalf.

Happy or unhappy, families are all mysterious. We have only to imagine how differently we would be described – and will be, after our deaths – by each of the family members who believe they know us.

There’s no greater gift than thinking that you had some impact on the world, for the better.

Now, we are becoming the men we wanted to marry. Once, women were trained to marry a doctor, not be one.

I began to sense that a big part of our problem is simple ignorance of what the oldest cultures have to teach.