Gloria Steinem

This is the wisdom: If we bless our bodies, they will bless us.

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

Superwoman is the adversary of the women's movement.

I'm completely happy not having children. I mean, everybody does not have to live in the same way. And as somebody said, "Everybody with a womb doesn't have to have a child any more than everybody with vocal cords has to be an opera singer."

It's never to late for a happy childhood.

Self-esteem starts out as a personal blessing, but it becomes nothing less than an evolutionary force.

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

There is a naive belief that injustice only had to be pointed out in order to be cured.

I want us to organize, to tell the personal stories that create empathy, which is the most revolutionary emotion.

Women are not going to be equal outside the home until men are equal in it.

A person who has experienced something is almost always far more expert on it than are the experts.

I didn’t hear words that were accurate, much less prideful. For example, I never once heard the word clitoris. It would be years before I learned that females possessed the only organ in the human body with no function than to feel pleasure. (If such an organ were unique to the male body, can you imagine how much we would hear about it—and what it would be used to justify?)

If women could sleep their way to the top, there'd be a lot more women at the top.

Women have always been an equal part of the past. We just havent been a part of history.

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

For me, writing is the only thing that passes the three tests of metier: (1) 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, nce in a while, pride; and (3) it's frightening.

Writing keeps me from believing everything I read.

In every century, there are a handful of writers who help the human race to evolve. Andrea is one of them.

It doesn't matter where we begin the personal/political circle, but it matters desperately that we complete it.

If what's inside your dreams wasn't already real inside you, you couldn't even dream it.

She is a water bug on the surface of life.