Gloria Steinem

"The future is literally in our hands, in the form of the choices we make every day."

"I hope that we will one day see our nation's capital as a center of learning and not just politics."

"To tell stories about ourselves, as we really are, is to take back the power of naming ourselves."

"Racism, sexism, and all forms of discrimination are immoral."

"Women are the guardians of the language."

"My dream is to live in a world where the worth of a person is not dependent on their gender."

"The truth is that the moment we feel most alive is when we let our masks down."

"A woman is not a bird. She is a full human being with complex emotions and thoughts."

"I try to live my life as a human being first and everything else second."

"The will to change is not always subject to our control."

"There is no such thing as a bad question when you are trying to understand something."

"We are not supposed to be perfect; we are supposed to be ourselves."

"The future is shaped by our choices, not by our fate."

"A person who makes no mistakes probably isn't trying hard enough."

"The greatest gift we can give one another is the gift of our authentic selves."

"Most women are one man away from welfare."

"Telling the truth may not get you many friends, but it'll get you the right ones."

"The brain is not an organ of sex, and gender is a social construction."

"We cannot always control the circumstances around us, but we can control our response to them."

"A woman must have money and a room of her own if she is to write or think."

"The same patriarchy that oppresses women also teaches men to suppress their emotions."

"I am not a breakthrough. I am a series of interruptions."

"We need not think alike to love alike."

"The most radical thing any of us can do right now is to be fully honest."

"We are all androgynous; we are all capable of being both masculine and feminine."

"The greatest act of revolution is self-love and self-care."

"Life is not something to be afraid of, it is something to be experienced."

"We cannot solve problems with the same thinking that created them."

"A woman who cuts her hair is about to change her life."

"The goal is not to make women stronger; it is to stop making society so hostile to strength in women."