Quotes from Gloria Steinem
We'll only really know we've succeeded when a mediocre woman does as well as a mediocre man. You shouldn't have to be extraordinary. That's the point!
- Gloria Steinem
We can tell our values by looking at our checkbook stubs.
- Gloria Steinem
Now, we've made the revolutionary discovery that children have two parents. A decade ago even the kindly Dr. Spock held mothers solely responsible for children.
- Gloria Steinem
The future depends entirely on what each of us does every day; a movement is only people moving.
- Gloria Steinem
The political is personal.
- Gloria Steinem
Religion is often politics made sacred.
- Gloria Steinem
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
When the past dies, there is mourning, but when the future dies our imaginations are compelled to carry it on.
- Gloria Steinem
The purpose of feminism is to free the uniqueness of the individual and to understand that inside each of us is a unique human being who is a combination of heredity and environment.
- Gloria Steinem
We teach what we need to learn.
- Gloria Steinem
It is more rewarding to watch money change the world than watch it accumulate.
- Gloria Steinem
Obviously there is no such thing as race, and in many ways, sex is a continuum, not a binary. So it doesn't make sense to label people in that way.
- Gloria Steinem