“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.”
"The cancer served a real purpose, making me a little bit more conscious of time."
- Gloria Steinem
Awareness
"I have yet to hear a man ask for advice on how to combine marriage and a career."
- Gloria Steinem
Awareness
"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
Relationships
"Being married is like having somebody permanently in your corner. It feels limitless, not limited."
- Gloria Steinem
Relationships
"The truth will set you free, but first it will piss you off."
- Gloria Steinem
Courage
"Challenges are what make life interesting and overcoming them is what makes life meaningful."
- Joshua J. Marine
Adversity
"The greater the difficulty, the more the glory in surmounting it."
- Epicurus
Adversity
"It is a rough road that leads to the heights of greatness."
- Lucius Annaeus Seneca
Adversity
"The battles that count aren’t the ones for gold medals. The struggles within yourself—the invisible, inevitable battles inside all of us—that’s where it’s at."
- Jesse Owens
Adversity
"If there is no struggle, there is no progress."
- Frederick Douglass
Adversity