Gloria Steinem

"Grassroots means if you can't get in the door, you build your own."

"There's such a thing as a soulmate and we were meant to find each other, except when we weren't."

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

"The art of life is knowing what to overlook."

"Once you stop trying to be everything to everyone, you can be everything to someone."

"A feminist is anyone who recognizes the equality and full humanity of women and men."

"Women are not going to be equal outside the home until men are equal inside the home."

"The difference between a feminist and a humanist? Nothing, really."

"Writing and traveling is like an addiction; once you start, you can't stop."

"If we can imagine it, we can do it; if we can dream it, we can become it."

"The most courageous thing we do in our lives is usually astonishing to no one."

"A lot of American feminism to me, first-wave, was occasionally illiterate to the world around them, and racist, and bad politics, even when they thought they were helping."

"The process of change is not about winning; it's about the truth."

"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."

"Erotica is about celebrating sexuality with joyful consent, not about the objectification that exists in pornography."

"The hardest thing to overcome is not a big enemy, but a small, persistent doubt in yourself."

"I realized that writing about myself was a way of writing about the world."

"Gender equality must be achieved not in a thousand years but now, in this century."

"The person we are trying to be affects who we are right now."

"We are taught to believe that if you just have faith and believe, everything will work out. But sometimes you have to have the faith to work."

"The truth is that everywhere we look, we see women bearing the weight of unpaid labor."

"I spent several years trying to teach a famous writer who was incapable of it."

"Maybe just by growing up female you're delusional, a little bit insane."

"Whenever someone tells me I can't do something, I want to do it more."

"God may be in the details, but the goddess is in the questions."

"If you look at the history of movements, the women are often invisible because we wrote the history of men."

"Women should be neither above nor below men; we should be equally beside them."

"The emotional, sexual, and psychological stereotyping of females begins when the doctor says 'it's a girl.'"

"Silence and invisibility go hand in hand with powerlessness."

"A man's face is his autobiography; a woman's face is her work of fiction."