Gloria Steinem

The cleanup costs of polluting a river, injecting pesticides into the ground water, or putting noxious gases into the air have not been figured into the cost of the manufacturing or agribusiness that put them there in the first place. Historically, the economic incentive has been to pollute.

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

The art of life is not controlling what happens to us, but using what happens to us

Don't think about making women fit the world -- think about making the world fit women."

Her searches after knowledge were arbitrary and without context. It was as if she were shining a small flashlight of curiosity into the dark room of the world.

When the past dies, there is mourning, but when the future dies our imaginations are compelled to carry it on.

Each others' lives are our best textbooks.

Rich People plan for three generations Poor people plan for Saturday night

I do not like to write - I like to have written.

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.

we are the women our parents warned us against, and we are proud

no one ever got radicalized by being grateful

Having someone who looks like us but thinks like them is worse than having no one at all.