1,066 Quotes by Gloria Steinem

The most impersonal seeming audiences eventually just say such intimate, smart, wise, amazing, totally surprising, funny things. It’s empowering, in the sense of feeling like you’re a part of something really important.

Any woman who chooses to behave like a full human being should be warned that the armies of the status quo will treat her as something of a dirty joke. That’s their natural and first weapon. She will need her sisterhood.

The art of being helpful is behaving as if everything we do matters – because we never know which things might.

She didn’t put her finger to the wind; she became the wind.

I would say don’t worry about what you should do, do whatever you can. And seek companions with shared values.

It’s endlessly interesting to be organizing and hearing possible solutions or thinking of possible solutions and how to put efforts together. It makes everything else boring, actually.

Since learning causes our brains to grow new synapses, I like to believe that the road is sharpening my mind and lengthening my life with surprise.

Paradoxically, only journeying backward in time and reentering the home we once knew allows us to go forward to the home we’ve always wanted.

I think we acquire habits of mind when we’re little, and I lived in the future because I was always imagining being a grown-up, when I could get out.