A movement is only composed of people moving. To feel its warmth and motion around us is the end as well as the means.
Gloria SteinemPower can be taken, but not given. The process of the taking is empowerment in itself.
Gloria SteinemWe 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.
Gloria SteinemFrom pacifist to terrorist, each person condemns violence - and then adds one cherished case in which it may be justified.
Gloria SteinemWhere men come to and women come together most intimately in sexuality in the home has become suffused with violence.
Gloria SteinemThere's one logical generational difference and that is that young women will have more chances to support a female president than older women. Older women feel it's their last chance, so that's just a factual, obvious difference. But other than that it depends on experience, on individual experience.
Gloria Steinem