Gloria Steinem

"Do whatever gives you joy. Stop doing whatever makes you miserable."

"Stories are the creative conversion of life itself into a more powerful, clearer, more meaningful experience."

"If you think you can, you can. And if you think you can't, you're right."

"The greatest scientific discovery of our time is the power of the individual woman."

"I'm probably the least ambitious person I know."

"We have become the men we wanted to marry."

"The political is personal."

"Better an older woman than an older man."

"You cannot teach a crab to walk straight."

"Our hearts are broken by the losses we have not yet experienced."

"If you say something often enough, it becomes the truth."

"Silence is not the absence of conflict, it is the presence of injustice."

"A good ruler is one who will plan long enough to see the end of his schemes."

"Every act of creation is first an act of destruction."

"The arc of history does not bend on its own."

"We are not born knowing how to be female."

"Some of us are becoming the men we wanted to marry."

"Erotica is about mutuality and consent, pornography is about domination and power."

"Women's lib is human lib."

"The truth is nothing like the movies."

"If you move through the world with an open heart, you will be hurt many times."

"I would rather see a woman die in liberty than see her live in slavery."

"The future is completely open, and we are writing it every day with our choices."

"I never really understood the concept of retirement."

"Women's greatest tragedy is that we've been too well trained to doubt ourselves."

"The connection between dress and behavior is not magical."

"People are not machines."

"We have been taught that silence is golden."

"Any woman who chooses to behave like a full human being should be warned that the armies of the status quo will treat her as something of a dirty joke."

"The difference between humans and other animals is that we are the only animal that does morality."