Quotes about Perspective
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 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
It also reminds me of an organizing principle: Anybody who is experiencing something is more expert in it than the experts.
— 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
Taking away the good is even more lethal than pointing out the bad.
— Gloria Steinem
Altogether, I can't imagine technology replacing bookstores completely, any more than movies about a country replace going there.
— Gloria Steinem
Women are always saying, "We can do anything that men can do." But men are not saying, "We can do anything that women can do.
— Gloria Steinem
It is said that the biggest determinant of our lives is whether we see the world as welcoming or hostile. This becomes a self-fulfilling prophecy.
— Gloria Steinem
Part of traveling over years means coming back to the same place and knowing it for the first time.
— Gloria Steinem
I soon developed myopia and a firm belief that people in books were not only more interesting but more real than people outside of books.
— Gloria Steinem
The older I get, the more intensely I feel about the world around me.
— Gloria Steinem
Those without money learn the valuable lesson that money doesn't cure all woes. Instead, it may actually insulate and isolate.
— Gloria Steinem