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

— Gloria Steinem

After all, hope is a form of planning.

— Gloria Steinem

A gender-equal society would be one where the word 'gender' does not exist: where everyone can be themselves.

— Gloria Steinem

A journey - whether it's to the corner grocery or through life - is supposed to have a beginning, middle, and end, right? Well, the road is not like that at all. It's the very illogic and the juxtaposed differences of the road - combined with our search for meaning - that make travel so addictive.

— Gloria Steinem

A liberated woman is one who has sex before marriage and a job after.

— Gloria Steinem

All my years campaigning have given me one clear message: Voting isn't the most we can do, but it is the least. To have a democracy, you have to want one. Still, I realize this fully only by looking back.

— Gloria Steinem

All women and men of color - we were owned like tables and chairs. We spent a hundred years getting a legal identity as human beings. That's a big thing.

— Gloria Steinem

Altogether, I can't imagine technology replacing bookstores completely, any more than movies about a country replace going there.

— Gloria Steinem

Altogether, if I had to pick one place to hang out anywhere, from New York to Cape Town and Australia to Hong Kong, a bookstore would be it.

— Gloria Steinem

Anger is energizing. The opposite of anger is depression, which is anger turned inward.

— Gloria Steinem