Quotes about Empowerment
The art of life is not controlling what happens to us, but using what happens to us
— Gloria Steinem
No one ever got radicalized by being grateful.
— Gloria Steinem
Feminism...is not 'women as victims' but women refusing to be victims.
— Gloria Steinem
The driver, an old Irish woman, the only such cabbie I've ever seen, turned to us at a traffic light and said the immortal words, "Honey, if men could get pregnant, abortion would be a sacrament!
— Gloria Steinem
Perhaps the most revolutionary act for a woman will be a self-willed journey—and to be welcomed when she comes home.
— Gloria Steinem
At my age, in this still hierarchical time, people often ask me if I'm "passing the torch." I explain that I'm keeping my torch, thank you very much—and I'm using it to light the torches of others.
— Gloria Steinem
Voting isn't the most we can do, but it is the least.
— Gloria Steinem
Being graded for memorizing male accomplishments with the deep message that we can learn what others do but never do it ourselves.
— Gloria Steinem
As feminism has changed academia by enlarging what is taught, academia has sometimes changed feminism.
— Gloria Steinem
Taking away the good is even more lethal than pointing out the bad.
— Gloria Steinem
if you don't stand up for yourselves, how can you stand up for anybody else?
— Gloria Steinem
Statistically speaking, home is an even more dangerous place for women than the road.
— Gloria Steinem