"I myself cried when I got angry, then became unable to explain why I was angry in the first place. Later I would discover this was endemic among female human beings. Anger is supposed to be "unfeminine" so we suppress it -until it overflows. I could see that not speaking up made my mother feel worse. This was my first hint of the truism that depression is anger turned inward; thus women are twice as likely to be depressed. My mother paid a high price for caring so much, yet being able to do so little about it. In this way, she led me toward am activist place where she herself could never go." ~ Gloria Steinem ♥150SharePinTweet0 SharesWomen
"You're always the person you were when you were born," she says impatiently. "You just keep finding new ways to express it." ~ Gloria Steinem ♥17SharePinTweet0 Shares
"Writing is the only thing that when I do it, I don't feel I should be doing something else." ~ Gloria Steinem ♥17SharePinTweet0 Shares
"so whatever you want to do, just do it...Making a damn fool of yourself is absolutely essential." ~ Gloria Steinem ♥16SharePinTweet0 Shares
"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 . . . She will need her sisterhood." ~ Gloria Steinem ♥155SharePinTweet3 SharesWomen
"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." ~ Gloria Steinem ♥148SharePinTweet0 SharesLife QuotesWomen
"We've begun to raise daughters more like sons... but few have the courage to raise our sons more like our daughters." ~ Gloria Steinem ♥16SharePinTweet0 Shares
"Once we give up searching for approval we often find it easier to earn respect." ~ Gloria Steinem ♥17SharePinTweet0 Shares
"Women may be the one group that grows more radical with age." ~ Gloria Steinem ♥149SharePinTweet0 SharesWomen
"Men should think twice before making widowhood women's only path to power." ~ Gloria Steinem ♥149SharePinTweet0 SharesWomen
"A feminist is anyone who recognizes the equality and full humanity of women and men." ~ Gloria Steinem ♥165SharePinTweet0 SharesWomen
" I have yet to hear a man ask for advice on how to combine marriage and a career. " ~ Gloria Steinem ♥17SharePinTweet0 Shares
" The first problem for all of us, men and women, is not to learn, but to unlearn." ~ Gloria Steinem ♥36SharePinTweet0 SharesWomen
" Without leaps of imagination, or dreaming, we lose the excitement of possibilities. Dreaming, after all, is a form of planning." ~ Gloria Steinem ♥14SharePinTweet0 Shares
" This is no simple reform. It really is a revolution. Sex and race because they are easy and visible differences have been the primary ways of organizing human beings into superior and inferior groups and into the cheap labour in which this system still depends. We are talking about a society in which there will be no roles other than those chosen or those earned. We are really talking about humanism. " ~ Gloria Steinem ♥16SharePinTweet0 Shares
" We can tell our values by looking at our checkbook stubs." ~ Gloria Steinem ♥17SharePinTweet0 Shares
" Law and justice are not always the same. When they aren't, destroying the law may be the first step toward changing it." ~ Gloria Steinem ♥15SharePinTweet0 Shares
" If women are supposed to be less rational and more emotional at the beginning of our menstrual cycle when the female hormone is at its lowest level, then why isn't it logical to say that, in those few days, women behave the most like the way men behave all month long?" ~ Gloria Steinem ♥153SharePinTweet0 SharesWomen
" Power can be taken, but not given. The process of the taking is empowerment in itself." ~ Gloria Steinem ♥16SharePinTweet0 Shares
" The truth will set you free. But first, it will piss you off." ~ Gloria Steinem ♥17SharePinTweet0 Shares
" Writing is the only thing that, when I do it, I don't feel I should be doing something else." ~ Gloria Steinem ♥16SharePinTweet0 Shares
