Quotes by Gloria Steinem

“Like the spider spinning its web, we create much of the outer world from within ourselves. The universe is a joint product of the observer and the observed.”

“Artists strive to free this true and spontaneous self in their work. Creativity, meditation are ways of freeing an inner voice.”

“As always, self-esteem had created an ability to be generous.”

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

“Rich People plan for three generationsPoor people plan for Saturday night”

“I have yet to hear a man ask for advice on how to combine marriage and a career.”

“Men should think twice before making widowhood women's only path to power.”

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

“Most women are one man away from welfare.”

“I think we each come out of the womb with some unique way of looking at the world and if we don't express it, we loose faith in ourselves.”

“As Robin Morgan wrote so wisely, "Hate generalizes, love specifies". Thats what makes going on the road so important. It definitely specifies.”

“A woman reading Playboy feels a little like a Jew reading a Nazi manual.”

“But why didn't you leave? Why didn't you take my sister and go to New York?" she would say it didn't matter, that she was lucky to have my sister and me. If I pressed hard enough, she would add, "I...”

“Women of all groups were measurably more likely than their male counterparts to vote for equality, health, and education, and against violence as a way of solving conflict. It wasn't about biology,...”

“Feminism...is not 'women as victims' but women refusing to be victims.”

“There are really not many jobs that actually acquire a penis or a vagina, and all other occupations should be open to everyone.”

“Im not advocating a competition for who has it toughest. The caste systems of sex and race are interdependent and can only be uprooted together. Its time to take equal pride in breaking all the bar...”

“When people ask me why I still have hope and energy after all these years, I always say: Because I travel.”

“Don't write when you're angry and under deadline, with time to test it only on friends who know what you mean, not on strangers who don't.”

“My father did not have to trade dying alone for the joys of the road. My mother did not have to give up a journey of her own to have a home. Neither do I. Neither do you.”