Childbirth is more admirable than conquest, more amazing than self-defense, and as courageous as either one.
Gloria Steinem
Law and justice are not always the same. When they aren't, destroying the law may be the first step toward changing it.
Gloria Steinem
I've yet to be on a campus where most women weren't worrying about some aspect of combining marriage, children, and a career. I've yet to find one where many men were worrying about the same thing
Gloria Steinem
Power can be taken, but not given. The process of the taking is empowerment in itself.
Gloria Steinem
Writing is the only thing that, when I do it, I don't feel I should be doing something else.
Gloria Steinem
Without leaps of imagination, or dreaming, we lose the excitement of possibilities. Dreaming, after all, is a form of planning.
Gloria Steinem
By the year 2000 we will, I hope, raise our children to believe in human potential,not God
Gloria Steinem