Gloria Steinem Quotes

“I would say the most heartening, important things are, for one, we know we're not crazy. There are of women and men around the globe who know that the way female human beings are treated is neither just nor inevitable — and that it can be changed.”
― Salamishah Tillet, Gloria Steinem: The Kindle Singles Interview

“I always end up feeling like I've been down in a dark basement and there's all that reality there, and now I'm out in the sunshine trying to explain to the people in the sunshine what's going on in the basement. It isn't that the people in the sunshine are bad people, but they haven't been in the basement. ”
― Salamishah Tillet, Gloria Steinem: The Kindle Singles Interview

“And I really don’t think, for the most part, that change comes from the top.  Not in my experience.  It grows like a tree.”
― Salamishah Tillet, Gloria Steinem: The Kindle Singles Interview

“The art of behaving effectively is behaving as if everything that you do matters.  I have certainly spent long, long hours preparing for something I thought was important, but turned out to have no impact whatsoever. At the same time, I’ve done some small thing that turned out years later to have some huge impact that I never even thought of.”
― Salamishah Tillet, Gloria Steinem: The Kindle Singles Interview

“Before that, I think what happened to me, and I suspect may happen to a lot of women, is that I identified with other outsiders without understanding why. Why was I going to work for the farm workers? It didn't make a lot of sense. But I identified with the groups or individuals — human beings — that I was not supposed to identify with.  I didn't understand that there was a reason why we females identify with a certain feeling of powerlessness. ”
― Salamishah Tillet, Gloria Steinem: The Kindle Singles Interview

“Reading books was a sign of rebellion. ”
― Salamishah Tillet, Gloria Steinem: The Kindle Singles Interview

“If there's a father present, he either sends a message that you have to be someone else to be loved, or that you can be yourself. My father made it very clear that I could be myself and be loved. That's a gift.”
― Salamishah Tillet, Gloria Steinem: The Kindle Singles Interview

“I came to feel, as I think many women on the right wing feel, that religion was the only thing that could control men and make them gentle.”
― Salamishah Tillet, Gloria Steinem: The Kindle Singles Interview