You have no choice but to live in the present, if you're really being open to events and people as they come along.
Gloria SteinemWhen the past dies, there is mourning, but when the future dies our imaginations are compelled to carry it on.
Gloria SteinemI wouldn't want to generalize, but we still do live in a society that's sexist and racist and addicted to class and has the ridiculous idea that if you have money you're smarter, which Donald Trump by himself should be able to disprove.
Gloria SteinemIt's a big gift to be recognizable as part of something that matters to people, but that's not the same as being responsible for something.
Gloria SteinemIf you're raised in a house where it's okay for one group to eat and another to cook, or for one group to get more education money than the other or to be more free than the other, or where one parent gives in to the will of the other or may be verbally or even physically abused by the other. This gives you an idea of human worth.
Gloria Steinem