Gloria Steinem: Trending quotes (page 4)

“Also, one of the simplest paths to deep change is for the less powerful to speak as much as they listen, and for the more powerful to listen as much as they speak.”

“Decisions are best made by the people affected by them.”

“If you find yourself drawn to an event against all logic, go. The universe is telling you something.”

“Having someone who looks like us but thinks like them is worse than having no one at all.”

“Law and justice are not always the same. When they aren't, destroying the law may be the first step toward changing it.”

“Each others' lives are our best textbooks.”

“The art of life is not controlling what happens to us, but using what happens to us”

“Self-esteem isn't everything; it's just that there's nothing without it.”

“A lot of my generation are living out the un-lived lives of our mothers.”

“No man can call himself liberal, or radical, or even a conservative advocate of fair play, if his work depends in any way on the unpaid or underpaid labor of women at home, or in the office.”

“Happy or Unhappy, families are all mysterious.”

“Always ask the turtle.”

“If you want people to listen to you, you have to listen to them. If you hope people will change how they live, you have to know how they live. If you want people to see you, you have to sit down with them eye-to-eye.”

“no one ever got radicalized by being grateful”

“Altogether, if I'd been looking at nothing but the media all these years, I would be a much more discouraged person-especially given the notion that only conflict is news, and that objectivity means being evenhandedly negative.”

“I began to see that for some, religion was just a form of politics you couldn’t criticize.”

“Her searches after knowledge were arbitrary and without context. It was as if she were shining a small flashlight of curiosity into the dark room of the world.”

“We'll never solve the feminization of power until we solve the masculinity of wealth.”

“When the past dies, there is mourning, but when the future dies our imaginations are compelled to carry it on.”