Gloria Marie Steinem is an American feminist, journalist, and social political activist who became nationally recognized as a leader and a spokeswoman for the American feminist movement in the late 1960s and early 1970s. Steinem was a columnist for New York magazine, and a co-founder of Ms. magazine. In 1969, Steinem published an article, “After Black Power, Women’s Liberation”, which brought her to national fame as a feminist leader. Steinem speaking with supporters at the Women Together Arizona Summit at Carpenters Local Union in Phoenix, Arizona, September 2016. In 2005, Steinem, Jane Fonda, and Robin Morgan co-founded the Women’s Media Center, an organization that “works to make women visible and powerful in the media”. As of May 2018, Steinem traveled internationally as an organizer and lecturer, and was a media spokeswoman on issues of equality. May these Gloria Steinem Quotes On Success inspire you to take action so that you may live your dreams.
1. “The art of life is not controlling what happens to us, but using what happens to us.” Gloria Steinem
2. “If the shoe doesn’t fit, must we change the foot?” Gloria Steinem
3. “Clinging to the past is the problem. Embracing change is the answer.” Gloria Steinem
4. “Helping begins with listening.” Gloria Steinem
5. “Imagining anything is the first step toward creating it. Believing in a true self is what allows a true self to be born.” Gloria Steinem
6. “In order to make a choice, you need the power to see there is one.” Gloria Steinem
7. “The first problem for all of us, men and women, is not to learn, but to unlearn.” Gloria Steinem
8. “A good friendship is a conversation that never ends.” Gloria Steinem
9. “learning must travel the distance from head to heart.” Gloria Steinem
10. “There’s no greater gift than thinking that you had some impact on the world, for the better.” Gloria Steinem
11. “I have me brave women who are exploring the outer edge of human possibility, with no history to guide them, and with a courage to make themselves vulnerable that I find moving beyond words.” Gloria Steinem
12. “Without leaps of imagination, or dreaming, we lose the excitement of possibilities. Dreaming, after all, is a form of planning.” Gloria Steinem
13. “Whenever one person stands up and says, “Wait a minute, this is wrong,” it helps other people do the same.” Gloria Steinem
14. “The future depends entirely on what each of us does every day; a movement is only people moving.” Gloria Steinem
15. “Like art, revolutions come from combining what exists into what has never existed before.” Gloria Steinem
16. “Language can’t solve everything, of course, but it does carry our dreams and our ideas.” Gloria Steinem
17. “A woman without a man is like a fish without a bicycle.” Gloria Steinem
18. “There is a naive belief that injustice only had to be pointed out in order to be cured.” Gloria Steinem
19. “Intelligence without character is a dangerous thing.” Gloria Steinem
20. “The first resistance to social change is to say it’s not necessary.” Gloria Steinem
21. “It is more rewarding to watch money change the world than watch it accumulate.” Gloria Steinem
22. “Power can be taken, but not given. The process of the taking is empowerment in itself.” Gloria Steinem
23. “Empathy is the most radical of human emotions.” Gloria Steinem
24. “when pain has been intertwined with love and closeness, it’s very difficult to believe that love and closeness can be experienced without pain.” Gloria Steinem
25. “The purpose of feminism is to free the uniqueness of the individual and to understand that inside each of us is a unique human being who is a combination of heredity and environment.” Gloria Steinem
26. “Once we give up searching for approval we often find it easier to earn respect.” Gloria Steinem
27. “Being misunderstood by people whose opinions you value is absolutely the most painful.” Gloria Steinem
28. “Law and justice are not always the same. When they aren’t, destroying the law may be the first step toward changing it.” Gloria Steinem
29. “Whatever you want to do, do it now.” Gloria Steinem
30. “Far too many people are looking for the right person, instead of trying to be the right person.” Gloria Steinem
31. “If we’re by ourselves we come to feel crazy and alone. We need to make alternate families of small groups of women who support each other, talk to each other regularly, can speak their truths and their experiences and find they’re not alone in them, that other women have them, too. It makes such a huge difference.” Gloria Steinem
32. “We’ve begun to raise daughters more like sons, but few have the courage to raise our sons more like our daughters.” Gloria Steinem
33. “Feminism has never been about getting a job for one woman. It’s about making life more fair for women everywhere. It’s not about a piece of the existing pie; there are too many of us for that. It’s about baking a new pie.” Gloria Steinem
34. “The art of being helpful is behaving as if everything we do matters – because we never know which things might.” Gloria Steinem
35. “The whole idea is not to figure out what you should do that will matter, but to make each thing you do reflect the values you want, because we don’t know what’s going to matter in the future.” Gloria Steinem
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