Quotes from Gloria Steinem

The most hurtful thing is not what comes from our adversaries, it's what comes from our friends.

The problem for all women is we're identified by how we look instead of by our heads and our hearts.

When I was little, I knew that I was not adopted, but I actually imagined and hoped that I was - and that my real parents were going to come get me.

I always say to audiences of men: "Cooperation beats submission. Trust me."

Having one's traditional role questioned is not a very comfortable experience, perhaps especially for women, who have been able to remain children, and to benefit from work they did not and could not do.

It used to be said that this country was a child-centered one. Nothing could be further from the truth. Children have been our lowest priority, both in economic and emotional spending.

There is always one true inner voice. Trust it.

Most women's magazines simply try to mold women into bigger and better consumers.

When I'm talking to groups that are all men, we talk about how the masculine role limits them. They often want to talk about how they missed having real fathers, real loving, present fathers, because of the way that they tried to fit the picture of masculinity.

Movements are like rivers. Dipping into them is never the same twice.

Worry less about solutions from the top or the idea that there is a solution, but try to do whatever you can and instill in each action the values that you want to result.

For me, writing is the only thing that passes the three tests of metier: (i) when I'm doing it, I don't feel that I should be doing something else instead; (2) it produces a sense of accomplishment and, once in a while, pride; and (3) it's frightening.