Gloria Steinem became the “world’s most famous feminist

There is no better moment in life than finding the right word.

If you do anything people care about, people will take care of you.

Self-esteem isn't everything; it's just that there's nothing without it.

Decisions are best made by the people affected by them.

We teach what we need to learn and write what we need to know.

When humans are ranked instead of linked, everyone loses.

We learn most where we know the least.

Empathy is the most radical of human emotions.

Anger is supposed to be “unfeminine,” so we suppress.

In truth, we don't know which of our acts in the present will shape the future. But we have to behave as if everything we do matters. Because it might.

Women may be the one group that grows more radical with age.

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

Clearly no one knows what leadership has gone undiscovered in women of all races, and in black and other minority men.

We'll never solve the feminization of power until we solve the masculinity of wealth.

Women are always better liked if we sacrifice ourselves for something bigger - and something bigger always means including men, even though something bigger for men don't usually mean including women.

Self-esteem is the basis of any real democracy.

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

Law and justice are not always the same. When they aren't, destroying the law may be the first step toward changing it.

Once we give up searching for approval we often find it easier to earn respect.

Planning ahead is a measure of class. The rich and even the middle class plan for future generations, but the poor can plan ahead only a few weeks or days.