Top 500 Gloria Steinem Quotes (2024 Update)
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51. “Thank you for all your good and beautiful work.”

— Gloria Steinem

52. “Self-esteem isn’t everything; it’s just that there’s nothing without it.”

— Gloria Steinem

53. “People waste more time waiting for someone to take charge of their lives than they do in any other pursuit.”

— Gloria Steinem

54. “I want to say to you that there is life and dreams and surprises after 30-and 40, and 50, and 60, and 77! Believe me, life is one long surprise.”

— Gloria Steinem

55. “Labeling makes the invisible visible, but it’s limiting. Categories are the enemy of connecting. Link, don’t rank.”

— Gloria Steinem

56. “Girls are taught to view their bodies as unending projects to work on, whereas boys from a young age, are taught to view their bodies as tools to master their environment.”

— Gloria Steinem

57. “Intelligence without character is a dangerous thing.”

— Gloria Steinem

58. “Inner space is the real frontier.”

— Gloria Steinem

59. “An education is not a thing one gets, but a lifelong process.”

— Gloria Steinem

60. “When you attempt something new, there’s always fear. A couple of helpful slogans to me are “follow the fear” or “fear is a sign of growth.””

— Gloria Steinem

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

— Gloria Steinem

62. “No, I’ll take responsibility for my own life, I am going to make a decision. And you know, to this day, I would raise flags on all public buildings to celebrate the chance I had to make that decision.”

— Gloria Steinem

63. “There’s no emotion more revolutionary than empathy.”

— Gloria Steinem

64. “Pornography is about dominance. Erotica is about mutuality.”

— Gloria Steinem

65. “It’s a fundamental human right to decide to have children or not to have children.”

— Gloria Steinem

66. “Feminism is about friends and sisters and community.”

— Gloria Steinem

67. “To me, the model of success is not linear. Success is completing the full circle of yourself.”

— Gloria Steinem

68. “Whoever has power takes over the noun – and the norm – while the less powerful get an adjective.”

— Gloria Steinem

69. “Intelligence in the service of poor instinct is really dangerous.”

— Gloria Steinem

70. “Being married is like having somebody permanently in your corner. It feels limitless, not limited.”

— Gloria Steinem

71. “Life after 50 or 60 is itself another country, as different as adolescence is from childhood, or as adulthood is from adolescence – and just as adventurous.”

— Gloria Steinem

72. “When unique voices are united in a common cause, they make history.”

— Gloria Steinem

73. “Helping begins with listening.”

— Gloria Steinem

74. “Someone once asked me why women don’t gamble as much as men do and I gave the commonsensical reply that we don’t have as much money. That was a true but incomplete answer. In fact, women’s total instinct for gambling is satisfied by marriage.”

— Gloria Steinem

75. “We can tell our values by looking at our checkbook stubs.”

— Gloria Steinem

76. “At my age, in this still hierarchical time, people often ask me if I’m “passing the torch.” I explain that I’m keeping my torch, thank you very much-and I’m using it to light the torches of others.”

— Gloria Steinem

77. “It feels as if childhood sexual abuse or domestic abuse of women in the home has increased but actually if you ask women of 60 or 70 years old, the incidence is about the same. We just didn’t know it.”

— Gloria Steinem

78. “Transformation happens in small groups. Each person can speak and all listen.”

— Gloria Steinem

79. “I have yet to hear a man ask for advice on how to combine marriage and a career.”

— Gloria Steinem

80. “Once we give up searching for approval we often find it easier to earn respect.”

— Gloria Steinem

81. “The best way for us to cultivate fearlessness in our daughters and other young women is by example.”

— Gloria Steinem

82. “Logic is in the eye of the logician.”

— Gloria Steinem

83. “The uncomfortable truth seems to be that the amount of talk by women has been measured less against the amount of men’s talk than against the expectation of female silence.”

— Gloria Steinem

84. “One act of violence takes four generations to heal.”

— Gloria Steinem

85. “God may be in the details, but the goddess is in the questions. Once we begin to ask them, there’s no turning back.”

— Gloria Steinem

86. “Home is a symbol of the self. Caring for a home is caring for one’s self.”

— Gloria Steinem

87. “We’ll never solve the feminization of power until we solve the masculinity of wealth.”

— Gloria Steinem

88. “I have me brave women who are exploring the outer edge of human possibility, with no history to guide them, and with a courage to make themselves vulnerable that I find moving beyond words.”

— Gloria Steinem

89. “Battered women is a phrase that uncovered major, long-hidden violence. It helps us to face the fact that, statistically speaking, the most dangerous place for a woman is in her own home, not in the streets.”

— Gloria Steinem

90. “Human beings are communal beings and we can’t exist or prosper by ourselves. We need each other’s support.”

— Gloria Steinem

91. “If you love your work, I’m not sure you have hobbies. I try to say no to things that other people could do and only say yes to things that only I could do.”

— Gloria Steinem

92. “If women could sleep their way to the top, there’d be a lot more women at the top.”

— Gloria Steinem

93. “Remember: “For want of a nail, the horseshoe was lost, for want of a horseshoe, the horse was lost, for want of a horse, the battle was lost, for want of a battle, the war was lost.” This parable should be the mantra of everyone who thinks her or his vote doesn’t count.”

— Gloria Steinem

94. “You may very well fall in love with somebody who makes less money, who’s younger than you, who weighs less than you.”

— Gloria Steinem

95. “The simple right to reproductive freedom – to sexuality as an expression that is separable from reproduction – is basic to restoring women’s power, the balance between women and men, and a balance between humans and nature.”

— Gloria Steinem

96. “In the late ’60s, people were saying we need power to, not power over. Power to do, accomplish, create, not power over other people.”

— Gloria Steinem

97. “When men realize that feminism is a universal good that affects them in very intimate ways then I think they really become allies and leaders.”

— Gloria Steinem

98. “By the year 2000 we will, I hope, raise our children to believe in human potential, not God.”

— Gloria Steinem

99. “If you really want to be lonely, get married.”

— Gloria Steinem

100. “I can’t mate in captivity.”

— Gloria Steinem