Top 500 Gloria Steinem Quotes (2024 Update)

1. “Without leaps of imagination, or dreaming, we lose the excitement of possibilities. Dreaming, after all, is a form of planning.”

— Gloria Steinem

2. “Everyone is unique and each experience is different.”

— Gloria Steinem

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3. “Rich People plan for three generations. Poor people plan for Saturday night.”

— Gloria Steinem

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4. “Whenever one person stands up and says, “Wait a minute, this is wrong,” it helps other people do the same.”

— Gloria Steinem

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5. “Dreaming, after all, is a form of planning.”

— Gloria Steinem

6. “A woman without a man is like a fish without a bicycle.”

— Gloria Steinem

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7. “The story of women’s struggle for equality belongs to no single feminist nor to any one organization but to the collective efforts of all who care about human rights.”

— Gloria Steinem

8. “Writing is the only thing that, when I do it, I don’t feel I should be doing something else.”

— Gloria Steinem

9. “Voting isn’t the most we can do. But it is the least.”

— Gloria Steinem

10. “One day an army of gray-haired women may quietly take over the Earth!”

— Gloria Steinem

11. “A feminist is anyone who recognizes the equality and full humanity of women and men.”

— Gloria Steinem

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

— Gloria Steinem

13. “Behave like everything you do matters.”

— Gloria Steinem

14. “Law and justice are not always the same.”

— Gloria Steinem

15. “A good friendship is a conversation that never ends.”

— Gloria Steinem

16. “There is always one true inner voice. Trust it.”

— Gloria Steinem

17. “Clinging to the past is the problem. Embracing change is the answer.”

— Gloria Steinem

18. “We’ve begun to raise daughters more like sons, but few have the courage to raise our sons more like our daughters.”

— Gloria Steinem

19. “The first problem for all of us, men and women, is not to learn, but to unlearn.”

— Gloria Steinem

20. “Empathy is the most radical of human emotions.”

— Gloria Steinem

21. “You are the leader you’ve been waiting for.”

— Gloria Steinem

22. “Self-hatred leads to the need either to dominate or to be dominated.”

— Gloria Steinem

23. “If the shoe doesn’t fit, must we change the foot?”

— Gloria Steinem

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

— Gloria Steinem

25. “Far too many people are looking for the right person, instead of trying to be the right person.”

— Gloria Steinem

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26. “The future depends entirely on what each of us does every day; a movement is only people moving.”

— Gloria Steinem

27. “Oppression has no logic – just a self-fulfilling prophecy, justified by a self-perpetuating system.”

— Gloria Steinem

28. “Some of us are becoming the men we wanted to marry.”

— Gloria Steinem

29. “We need to remember across generations that there is as much to learn as there is to teach.”

— Gloria Steinem

30. “Women may be the one group that grows more radical with age.”

— Gloria Steinem

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

— Gloria Steinem

32. “The first resistance to social change is to say it’s not necessary.”

— Gloria Steinem

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33. “I believe that change comes from the bottom, not the top.”

— Gloria Steinem

34. “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.”

— Gloria Steinem

35. “Law and justice are not always the same. When they aren’t, destroying the law may be the first step toward changing it.”

— Gloria Steinem

36. “Nothing will happen automatically. Change depends on what you and I do every day.”

— Gloria Steinem

37. “Feminism has never been about getting a job for one woman. It’s about making life more fair for women everywhere. It’s not about a piece of the existing pie; there are too many of us for that. It’s about baking a new pie.”

— Gloria Steinem

38. “Planning ahead is a measure of class. The rich and even the middle class plan for future generations, but the poor can plan ahead only a few weeks or days.”

— Gloria Steinem

39. “The need to treat ourselves as well as we treat others. It’s women’s version of the Golden Rule.”

— Gloria Steinem

40. “Every revolution begins as consciousness because some group of people has to imagine change.”

— Gloria Steinem

41. “A liberated woman is one who has sex before marriage and a job after.”

— Gloria Steinem

42. “Most writers write to say something about other people – and it doesn’t last. Good writers write to find out about themselves – and it lasts forever.”

— Gloria Steinem

43. “We are so different, yet so much the same.”

— Gloria Steinem

44. “Dying seems less sad than having lived too little.”

— Gloria Steinem

45. “We teach what we need to learn.”

— Gloria Steinem

46. “Work is valued by the social value of the worker.”

— Gloria Steinem

47. “Every social justice movement that I know of has come out of people sitting in small groups, telling their life stories, and discovering that other people have shared similar experiences.”

— Gloria Steinem

48. “If what’s inside your dreams wasn’t already real inside you, you couldn’t even dream it.”

— Gloria Steinem

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49. “Power can be taken, but not given. The process of the taking is empowerment in itself.”

— Gloria Steinem

50. “Power in this country is often like hemophilia; it passes through women and then men get it.”

— Gloria Steinem

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