Gloria Steinem

"The absence of alternatives clears the mind marvelously."

"The most creative thing in the world is a woman in love."

"If you can't find company inside yourself, you'll never find it outside."

"Outrageous behavior is the answer to outrageous oppression."

"The notion that women's liberation is about making women similar to men is wrong."

"We've begun to raise daughters more like sons, but few have the courage to raise sons like daughters."

"I sometimes wonder what it means to be human in this world we've created."

"The future depends entirely on what we do in the present."

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

"Believe that you are capable of change; the rest follows naturally."

"We teach girls to shrink themselves, to make themselves smaller."

"The truth will set you free, but first it will make you angry."

"A person's a person no matter how small their voice in the room."

"Diversity is the magic word that unlocks infinite possibility."

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

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

"Silence becomes cowardice when occasion demands speaking out."

"If men can run the world, why can't they stop eating in bed?"

"The bedroom is not a democracy, and neither should be the world."

"We cannot become what we need to be by remaining what we are."

"Erotica is using a feather; pornography is using the whole chicken."

"The arc of history bends toward justice only when we push it."

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

"Self-esteem must come before other-esteem."

"The only thing higher than the cost of living is the cost of freedom."

"Children are the only form of immortality that is guaranteed."

"A movement that only changes things on the surface will not last."

"Help each other and hold each other accountable."

"Real love is accepting other people exactly as they are."

"The personal is political, and the political must become personal."