Gloria Steinem Life Quotations

Like so many women, I was living out the unlived life of my mother - so I wouldn't be her. But the price I paid was that I distanced myself internally.

Gender is probably the most restricting force in American life.

I started out life as a writer, and writers write in part because they don't want to talk.

I didn't go to school a full year until I was 11 or 12, so I lived in books. I really was an observer of life.

Feminism began to dawn on my brain belatedly in life.

The point of the journey is not just healing. It's also recovering the truest, most spontaneous, joyful, and creative core of ourselves.

It's never to late for a happy childhood.

An education is not a thing one gets, but a lifelong process.

The art of life is not controlling what happens to us, but using what happens to us

Without leaps of imagination, or dreaming, we lose the excitement of possibilities. Dreaming, after all, is a form of planning.