Quotes about Empowerment
Also, one of the simplest paths to deep change is for the less powerful to speak as much as they listen, and for the more powerful to listen as much as they speak.
- Gloria Steinem
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