Gloria Steinem

Clinging to the past is the problem. Embracing change is the answer.

You are the leader you've been waiting for.

Perhaps the most revolutionary act for a woman will be a self-willed journey—and to be welcomed when she comes home.

I began to understand with a terrible sureness that we teach what we need to learn and write what we need to know.

Democracy is just something you must do every day, like brushing your teeth.

Difference is the source of learning. Maybe we should put it on a t-shirt — 'Difference is a Gift' so that we understand and don’t fear, so we are able to go up to the person most different from us and ask them the question we most fear asking.

We live in a world of either/or. We're trying to make a world of and.

I am in favor of changing society to fit people, not changing people to fit society.

The caste systems of sex and race are interdependent and can only be uprooted together…. It's time to take equal pride in breaking all the barriers.

Roots can exist without flowers, but no flower can exist without roots. Religion may be a flower, but people are its roots.

God may be in the details, but the goddess is in the questions.

Once we begin to ask (questions), there's no turning back.

Happy or unhappy, families are all mysterious. We have only to imagine how differently we would be described - and will be, after our deaths - by each of the family members who believe they know us.

Democracy begins with owning our bodies. By that measure, women have rarely lived in a democracy.

The Golden Rule was written by a smart guy for guys, but women need to reverse it: Treat ourselves as well as we treat others.

Everytime a woman looks in a mirror and criticizes her body, a girl is watching.

Just because we all have wombs doesn't mean we have to be mothers, just like we all have vocal cords doesn't mean we're all opera singers.

If you force Muslims to register, we will all register as Muslims.

We are linked. We are not ranked.