Gloria Steinem

"The cancer served a real purpose, making me a little bit more conscious of time."

- Gloria Steinem

"I have yet to hear a man ask for advice on how to combine marriage and a career."

- Gloria Steinem

"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."

- Gloria Steinem

"Being married is like having somebody permanently in your corner. It feels limitless, not limited."

- Gloria Steinem

"The truth will set you free, but first it will piss you off."

- Gloria Steinem

"Obviously, there is much similarity among the challenges of transgender people and all women - from health care to harassment to discrimination in the workplace."

- Gloria Steinem

"However sugarcoated and ambiguous, every form of authoritarianism must start with a belief in some group’s greater right to power, whether that right is justified by sex, race, class, religion or all four."

- Gloria Steinem

"The first problem for all of us, men and women, is not to learn, but to unlearn."

- Gloria Steinem

"The first problem for all of us, men and women, is not to learn but to unlearn. We are filled with popular wisdom of several centuries just past, and we are terrified to give it up."

- Gloria Steinem

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

- Gloria Steinem

"A gender-equal society would be one where the word ‘gender’ does not exist: where everyone can be themselves."

- Gloria Steinem

"Women are always saying, ‘We can do anything that men can do.’ But men should be saying, ‘We can do anything that women can do.'"

- Gloria Steinem

"Wherever I go, bookstores are still the closest thing to a town square."

- Gloria Steinem

""Dreaming, after all, is a form of planning.""

- Gloria Steinem

"We have to become the men we wanted to marry."

- Gloria Steinem

"Don’t think about making women fit the world - think about making the world fit women."

- Gloria Steinem

"A feminist is anyone who recognizes the equality and full humanity of women and men."

- Gloria Steinem

"Women are always saying, 'We can do anything that men can do.' But men should be saying, 'We can do anything that women can do."

- Gloria Steinem

"“Don’t think about making women fit the world - think about making the world fit women.”"

- Gloria Steinem

"Like art, revolutions come from combining what exists into what has never existed before."

- Gloria Steinem

"Some of us are becoming the men we wanted to marry."

- Gloria Steinem

"Don't think about making women fit the world—think about making the world fit women."

- Gloria Steinem

"Don’t think about making women fit the world — think about making the world fit women."

- Gloria Steinem

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

- Gloria Steinem

"Don’t think about making women fit the world – think about making the world fit women."

- Gloria Steinem

"Don't think about making women fit the world — think about making the world fit women."

- Gloria Steinem

"The first problem for all of us, men and women, is not to learn, but to unlearn. We are filled with the popular wisdom of several centuries just past, and we are terrified to give it up."

- Gloria Steinem

"Dreaming, after all, is a form of planning"

- Gloria Steinem

"So whatever you want to do, just do it…Making a damn fool of yourself is absolutely essential."

- Gloria Steinem

"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."

- Gloria Steinem

"It is more rewarding to watch money change the world than to watch it accumulate."

- Gloria Steinem

""It is more rewarding to watch money change the world than to watch it accumulate.""

- Gloria Steinem

"We are becoming the men we wanted to marry."

- Gloria Steinem

"The future depends entirely on what each of us does every day. After all, a movement is only people moving."

- Gloria Steinem

"A woman without a man is like a fish without a bicycle."

- Gloria Steinem

""Law and justice are not always the same.""

- Gloria Steinem

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

- Gloria Steinem

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

- Gloria Steinem