What I've learned is that unless it's an emergency, like a fire or brain surgery, hierarchy is not necessary and may be damaging. If you have a hierarchy, you're repeating the strengths and weaknesses of one person without allowing for the accumulative strength of a group.

— Gloria Steinem

When people ask me why I still have hope and energy after all these years, I always say: Because I travel.

— Gloria Steinem

Wherever I go, bookstores are still the closest thing to a town square.

— Gloria Steinem

Without leaps of imagination or dreaming, we lose the excitement of possibilities.

— Gloria Steinem

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

— Gloria Steinem

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

— Gloria Steinem

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

— Gloria Steinem

Women are always better liked if we sacrifice ourselves for something bigger - and something bigger always means including men, even though something bigger for men doesn't usually mean including women.

— Gloria Steinem

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

— Gloria Steinem

Women of all groups were measurably more likely than their male counterparts to vote for equality, health, and education, and against violence as a way of solving conflict. It wasn't about biology, but experience.

— Gloria Steinem