Gloria Steinem

"The future is not predetermined; it is created by what we do today."

"Forgiveness is not about absolving others; it's about freeing ourselves."

"The most powerful thing is a group of people who have decided to be free."

"Art is the evidence that life is worth living."

"We need more women in boardrooms and more artists in government."

"Mortality is what makes time precious; let's use ours wisely."

"The personal story is the most powerful tool for change."

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

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

"I myself have never been able to find out precisely what feminism is: I only know that people call me a feminist whenever I express sentiments that differentiate me from a doormat."

"We teach girls to shrink themselves, to make themselves smaller, so it's no wonder if women end up feeling like they're not supposed to take up space."

"The most important thing for a woman is to understand that she is a person first."

"Whoever said money can't buy happiness simply didn't know where to go shopping."

"A person without imagination is like a teabag without hot water."

"The first problem for all of us, men and women, is not to learn, but to unlearn."

"Doing seventy percent of something is better than doing one hundred percent of nothing."

"If the shoe doesn't fit, must we change the foot?"

"Women belong in the house and the Senate."

"Just as it is a hard-won achievement to learn to read and write in the conventional sense, it is equally hard-won to learn to read and write in the nonconventional or unconventional sense."

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

"The future depends entirely on what each of us does every day; a movement is only people moving."

"I was not able to sleep because of the intense sexual tension in my life."

"No human being should go through life without knowing how to cook an egg."

"If women were expected to do the same work as men, we only do it for half the pay."

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

"A woman is always wrong, but if she is sufficiently attractive, man will go along."

"Feminism's biggest rift has been between white and Black women, largely because white women refused to acknowledge differences of color and class."

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

"The question 'Why are women's issues being used to create wars?' has never been adequately answered."

"Far too many people are looking for the right person instead of trying to be the right person."