The first problem for all of us, men and women, is not to learn, but to unlearn.
Gloria Steinem

The first resistance to social change is to say it's not necessary.
Gloria Steinem

The future depends entirely on what each of us does every day; a movement is only people moving.
Gloria Steinem

The only thing I can't stand is discomfort.
Gloria Steinem

Unless we include a job as part of every citizen's right to autonomy and personal fulfillment, women will continue to be vulnerable to someone else's idea of what need is.
Gloria Steinem

We can tell our values by looking at our checkbook stubs.
Gloria Steinem

We need to remember across generations that there is as much to learn as there is to teach.
Gloria Steinem

We'll never solve the feminization of power until we solve the masculinity of wealth.
Gloria Steinem

We've begun to raise daughters more like sons... but few have the courage to raise our sons more like our daughters.
Gloria Steinem

What has the women's movement learned from Geraldine Ferraro's candidacy for vice president? Never get married.
Gloria Steinem

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

Work is valued by the social value of the worker.
Gloria Steinem

Writing is the only thing that, when I do it, I don't feel I should be doing something else.
Gloria Steinem