Gloria Steinem Quotes From The Famous Feminist

From pacifist to terrorist, each person condemns violence - and then adds one cherished case in which it may be justified.

God may be in the details, but the goddess is in the questions. Once we begin to ask them, there's no turning back.

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

If you want people to listen to you, you have to listen to them. If you hope people will change how they live, you have to know how they live. If you want people to see you, you have to sit down with them eye-to-eye.

It’s never too late for a happy childhood.

Citizens who refuse to obey anything but their own conscience can transform countries, it is the basis of any real democracy.

Taking away the good is even more lethal than pointing out the bad.

Laughter is the only free emotion - the only one that can't be compelled. We can be made to fear. We can even be made to believe we're in love because, if we're kept dependent and isolated for long enough, we bond in order to survive. But laughter explodes like an aha! It comes when the punch line changes everything that has gone before when two opposites collide and make a third and when we suddenly see a new reality...laughter is an orgasm of the mind.

Always look at what people do, not who they are.

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

One of the simplest paths to deep change is for the less powerful to speak as much as they listen, and for the more powerful to listen as much as they speak.

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

Logic is in the eye of the logician.

Mystery leaves a space for us when certainty does not.

Any woman who chooses to behave like a full human being should be warned that the armies of the status quo will treat her as something of a dirty joke. That's their natural and first weapon. She will need her sisterhood.

Anybody who is experiencing something is more expert in it than the experts.

Power can be taken, but not given. The process of the taking is empowerment in itself.

Hope is a very unruly emotion.

The first resistance to social change is to say it's not necessary.

Law and justice are not always the same.