My Life on the Road Quotes

“You know the hospital shows on television?” this woman asks. “When someone’s heart stops and has to be restarted with electric paddles? That’s what you and Margaret did for us. Please tell her daughter our hearts have been going ever since.”
― Gloria Steinem, My Life on the Road

“Now I see a few campuses that are honest”
― Gloria Steinem, My Life on the Road

“I don’t know enough to be a feminist.” Or even “I’m not smart enough to be a feminist.” It breaks my heart.”
― Gloria Steinem, My Life on the Road

“Flo kept reminding me that they gave us an opportunity to teach, though each one was also punishing to the soul.”
― Gloria Steinem, My Life on the Road

“most reliable predictor of whether a country is violent within itself—or will use military violence against another country—is not poverty, natural resources, religion, or even degree of democracy; it’s violence against females.”
― Gloria Steinem, My Life on the Road

“He let in the light.”
― Gloria Steinem, My Life on the Road

“Between what is and what could be?”
― Gloria Steinem, My Life on the Road

“she seemed both proud and scared that I was where she had once wished to be.”
― Gloria Steinem, My Life on the Road

“to making revolution, not just dinner.”
― Gloria Steinem, My Life on the Road

“Our brains are organized by narrative and image. After”
― Gloria Steinem, My Life on the Road

“How do I love campuses? Let me count the ways. I”
― Gloria Steinem, My Life on the Road

“But in each era, deep feelings about social justice at home and an unpopular war abroad produced candidates who were not so different in content, yet different enough in form and style to generate conflict among intimate allies. McCarthy/Obama came to symbolize hope because they were new and unknown, while Kennedy/Clinton seemed like pragmatists just because they had been near power. In fact, all four were both.”
― Gloria Steinem, My Life on the Road

“it was just that prejudiced people linked together things they didn’t like.”
― Gloria Steinem, My Life on the Road

“Women still average much less in earnings over a lifetime than men do and have to pay back the same college debt.”
― Gloria Steinem, My Life on the Road

“Maybe U.S. policy makers should talk to taxi drivers.”
― Gloria Steinem, My Life on the Road

“prejudiced people linked together things they didn’t like.”
― Gloria Steinem, My Life on the Road

“politics are a part of daily life.”
― Gloria Steinem, My Life on the Road

“can replace being in the same space. That’s exactly why we need to keep creating the temporary worlds of meetings, small and large, on campuses and everywhere else. In them, we discover we’re not alone, we learn from one another, and so we keep going toward shared goals.”
― Gloria Steinem, My Life on the Road

“Anger is supposed to be “unfeminine,” so we suppress”
― Gloria Steinem, My Life on the Road

“that conflict follows politics as night follows day,”
― Gloria Steinem, My Life on the Road

“campuses not only help create social justice movements, they need them.”
― Gloria Steinem, My Life on the Road

“The accusation that feminism is bad for the family leads to understanding that it’s bad for the patriarchal variety, but good for democratic families that are the basis of democracy.”
― Gloria Steinem, My Life on the Road

“Soon we discovered the intensity of interest in the simple idea that each person’s shared humanity and individual uniqueness far outweighed any label by group of birth, whether sex, race, class, sexuality, ethnicity, religious heritage, or anything else.”
― Gloria Steinem, My Life on the Road

“hope is a form of planning.”
― Gloria Steinem, My Life on the Road

“this country is transforming before our eyes. In thirty years or so, the majority will no longer be European Americans; the first generation of mostly babies of color has already been born. This new diversity will give us a better understanding of the world and enrich our cultural choices, yet there are people whose sense of identity depends on the old hierarchy. It may just be their fear and guilt talking: What if I am treated as I have treated others?”
― Gloria Steinem, My Life on the Road

“Her husband stops by on his way to the cashier and suggests I see the huge statue of Crazy Horse that’s being dynamited out of the Black Hills. “Crazy Horse riding his pony,” he says, “is going to make all those Indian-killing presidents on Mount Rushmore look like nothing.”
― Gloria Steinem, My Life on the Road

“Airline passengers usually look like where they’re going—business suits to Washington, D.C., jeans to L.A.”
― Gloria Steinem, My Life on the Road

“The New York Times op-ed page changed it to “Women Are Never Front-Runners.”
― Gloria Steinem, My Life on the Road