Gloria Steinem
Dying seems less sad than having lived too little.Collection: Inspiring
You have no choice but to live in the present, if you're really being open to events and people as they come along.Collection: People
You're a unique person. You should do what you're suited to do. We all should. It's the only way to be happy. That pressure is all outside. It's external.Collection: Unique
The ends and means are a seamless web.Collection: Mean
I don't know if fury can compete with necessity as the mother of invention, but I recommend it.Collection: Mother
When men realize that feminism is a universal good that affects them in very intimate ways then I think they really become allies and leaders.Collection: Men
When you say something in a wrong group - it will never be right, so you can not say anything wrong, when you don't belong to a group.Collection: Say Anything
A movement happens when people are inspired by somebody, but they do it themselves. You don't wait for someone else. You do it yourself.Collection: People
In the last 25 years, we've convinced ourselves and a majority of the country that women can do what men can do. Now we have to convince the majority of the country - and ourselves - that men can do what women can do. ... Let's face it: until men are fully equal inside the home, women will never be really equal outside it.Collection: Country
I do think it's important that there are feminist publications that are not dependent or only marginally dependent on advertising.Collection: Thinking
Girls are taught to view their bodies as unending projects to work on, whereas boys from a young age, are taught to view their bodies as tools to master their environmentCollection: Girl
you never know which thing you do is going to turn out to be important. I'm sure we've all done very small things that had very great impact and very big things that didn't make any difference. So, create the means that best reflect the ends we want. Try to make each moment authentic, and you'll get to an authentic end.Collection: Mean
There's really a shortage of good freelance writers. ... There are a lot of talented people who are very erratic, so either they don't turn it in or they turn it in and it's rotten; it's amazing. Somebody who's even maybe not all that terrific but who is dependable, who will turn in a publishable piece more or less on time, can really do very well.Collection: People
I believe that change comes from the bottom, not the top.Collection: Believe
If men started taking care of children, the job will become more valuable.Collection: Jobs
Feminism isn't called the longest revolution for nothing.Collection: Feminism
The act of acting morally is behaving as if everything we do matters.Collection: Integrity
Most writers write to say something about other people - and it doesn't last. Good writers write to find out about themselves - and it lasts forever.Collection: Writing
Only when women rebel against patriarchal standards does female muscle become more accepted.Collection: Rebel
Writers - we're a little crazy about how much we care about it. We spend a lot of time fussing. At least, I do.Collection: Crazy
You can't be what you can't see, so it's harder for women to say, "I'm going to be a [presidential] candidate," so we need to go to women who would be good candidates and say, "You would be a good candidate and I'll help you." It's not a passive question, it's not when will it happen, but an active question, when will we make it happen?Collection: Presidential
We do what we see and what we're told. If we haven't been raised in a family or in a community where women are treated as full human beings and men don't have to be superior anymore, we continue to think that it's not only natural but inevitable.Collection: Men
It would help not to treat age as if it were any less of a pleasure than it was when we were six and saying, 'I'm six and a half.' You know, we could be saying, 'I'm fifty and a half' and say it with joy. Each age is different and has different discoveries and pleasures.Collection: Discovery
Human beings are communal beings and we can't exist or prosper by ourselves. We need each other's support.Collection: Support
Writing is always harder than talking.Collection: Writing
You do have all five sense when you're in a room together. You communicate and understand each other in a much deeper way. It is a different form of communication from writing or being on the web.Collection: Communication
The young women seem to think that they can only go out with or marry a man who is superior to them. The problem there is that they are wanting to be defeated, as opposed to finding a partner.Collection: Men
Rich People plan for three generations. Poor people plan for Saturday night.Collection: Night
The first resistance to social change is to say it’s not necessary.Collection: Firsts
If what’s inside your dreams wasn’t already real inside you, you couldn’t even dream it.Collection: Real
Life after 50 or 60 is itself another country, as different as adolescence is from childhood, or as adulthood is from adolescence – and just as adventurous.Collection: Country
Karla Jay’s intimate account of life in the early years of feminism and gay liberation is as irresistible as a novel, but as credible, humorous, and unexpected as real life.Collection: Real
For the reader who has put away comic books, but isn’t yet ready for editorials in the Daily News.Collection: Book
I don’t think there’s any country that has equal pay, not even Sweden or Iceland.Collection: Country