Gloria Steinem

"A woman without a man is like a fish without a bicycle."

"The future depends entirely on what each of us does every day."

"Drag queens are just women who are more female than women."

"The truth will set you free, but first it will piss you off."

"A person's a person, no matter how small."

"Women belong in all places where decisions are being made."

"Self-esteem must be earned."

"The surest way to be alone is to get married."

"Writing is the only thing that when I do it, I don't feel like I should be doing something else."

"Claiming there is no alternative to the capitalist order is like claiming there is no alternative to gravity."

"If you say, I'm for equal pay for equal work, you're for feminism."

"The test for whether you live in a police state is not whether the police are potent, it is whether you have to second-guess ordinary words."

"I've yet to be on a campus where most women weren't worrying about some aspect of how they look."

"The person who says it cannot be done should not interrupt the person doing it."

"A woman is a full human being."

"Repetition may be the best form of learning, but it is not the best form of action."

"If we have never wept bitter tears when a wonderful woman dies, we have missed something important."

"It took me a long time not to judge myself through someone else's eyes."

"Expect to make some mistakes when trying something new. That's not failure, that's progress."

"The most important thing is to find your own voice."

"You don't make progress by standing on the sidelines whimpering and complaining."

"You can't teach what you don't know, and you can't lead where you won't go."

"In the land of the blind, the one-eyed woman is crazy."

"The butterfly counts not months but moments, and has time enough."

"We teach people that they're not responsible for their own lives."

"A woman who chooses to have a career is called selfish."

"There is no payoff to just working on your own head."

"The brain is like a muscle. When it is in use we feel very good about ourselves."

"If men could get pregnant, abortion would be a sacrament."

"Just because I'm not saying anything doesn't mean I'm not thinking plenty."