Each way of being is more valued in the presence of the other. This balance between making camp and following the seasons is both very ancient and very new. We all need both.

— Gloria Steinem

Even migrating birds know that nature doesn't demand a choice between nesting and flight.

— Gloria Steinem

Everyone has a home but me.

— Gloria Steinem

Everything about aging in my experience so far has been a plus. Except the death part!

— Gloria Steinem

Far too many people are looking for the right person, instead of trying to be the right person.

— Gloria Steinem

Father Began continues to write about everything from the injustice of current wars to the past and future of Catholic mysticism. In the Catholic Reporter, he publishes an article titled "Celibacy, a Vague Old Cross on Priestly Backs", and explains that it started "only in 1139 when the church no longer wanted to be financially responsible for the children of priests.

— Gloria Steinem

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. Furthermore, it's about baking a new pie.

— Gloria Steinem

Feminism...is not 'women as victims' but women refusing to be victims.

— Gloria Steinem

Flo especially took me in hand. When I felt I had to prove the existence of discrimination with statistics, for instance, she pulled me aside. 'If you're lying in the ditch with a truck on your ankle,' she said patiently, 'you don't send someone to the library to find out how much the truck weighs. You get it off!

— Gloria Steinem

For me, those weeks in Boston, with Wilma, became a lesson in her ability to be “of good mind,” in her phrase, which also meant a people’s ability to survive.

— Gloria Steinem