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-…

- Gloria Steinem

Without leaps of imagination, or dreaming, we lose the excitement of possibilities. Dreaming, after all, is a form of planning.

- Gloria Steinem

Intelligence without character is a dangerous thing.

- Gloria Steinem

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

- 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 combina…

- Gloria Steinem

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

- Gloria Steinem

A woman without a man is like a fish without a bicycle.

- Gloria Steinem

Sex and race, because they are easy and visible differences, have been the primary ways of organizing human beings into superior and inferior groups …

- Gloria Steinem

We've begun to raise daughters more like sons... but few have the courage to raise our sons more like our daughters.

- Gloria Steinem