Gloria Steinem Quotes

Self-esteem isn't everything; it's just that there's nothing without it.

For me, writing is the only thing that passes the three tests of metier: () when I'm doing it, I don't feel that I should be doing something else instead; () it produces a sense of accomplishment and, once in a while, pride; and () it's frightening.

By the year we will, I hope, raise our children to believe in human potential, not God.

It's more rewarding to watch money change the world than watch it accumulate.

Happy or unhappy, families are all mysterious. We have only to imagine how differently we would be described -- and will be, after our deaths -- by each of the family members who believe they know us.

Women may be the one group that grows more radical with age.

Pornography is the instruction. Rape is the practice, battered women are the practice, and battered children are the practice.

I've yet to be on a campus where most women weren't worrying about some aspect of combining marriage, children, and a career. I've yet to find one where many men were worrying about the same thing.

If men could get pregnant, abortion would be a sacrament.

We are becoming the men we wanted to marry