1,066 Quotes by Gloria Steinem

Economics anxiety may be even more common than the often identified ‘math anxiety,’ for unlike math, which has its personal uses, economics is seen as a mysterious set of forces manipulated from above.

I’m still the same person who grew up mostly in a Midwestern, factory-working neighborhood where talk about “self-esteem” would have seemed like a luxury.

I wonder: If you think of someone you love, do you become a little more like them? I would like to think so.

This is a crucial job of being an organizer. You leave a dark basement and try to explain to people in the sunshine what it’s like to live down there. I’ve learned this is best done by bringing these different groups of people together. Those with extra money discover how much more satisfying it is to see talent and fairness grow then to see objects accumulate. Those without money learn the valuable lesson that money doesn’t cure all woes. Instead, it may actually insulate and isolate.

But somewhere within each of us, buried at varying depths depending on the age and degree of neglect or abuse, shame or coercion we endured, there is a resistant, daydreaming, rebellious, creative, unique child – a true self who is waiting.

There’s no emotion more revolutionary than empathy.

Perhaps the most revolutionary act for a woman will be a self-willed journey – and to be welcomed when she comes home.

Men should think twice before making widow hood woman’s only path to power.

If you say, I’m for equal pay, that’s a reform. But if you say. I’m a feminist, that’s a transformation of society.