Gloria Steinem Quotes

A pedestal is the most insidious prison ever devised.

No one is free, even the birds are chained to the sky.

I thought how unpleasant it is to be locked out; and I thought how it is worse, perhaps, to be locked in.

I really like cages.

People are often unable to do anything, imprisoned as they are in I don't know what kind of terrible, terrible, oh such terrible cage.

To arrive is to be in prison.

He who is conceived in a cage yearns for the cage.

Of what use were wings to a man fast bound in chains of iron?

It's difficult to put into words what freedom feels like. You only know what freedom feels like if you know what it feels like to not be free.

I don't want to live like a prisoner.

When you put a top on something and try to bottle it, that's when it dies.

My cage has many rooms.

Prison house for the soul

There can be many bars, wires that keep a person trapped. All of them don't have to have been created for the purpose of harming or caging the bird, but they still serve that function.

A jailer is as much a prisoner as his prisoner.

There is one kind of prison where the man is behind bars, and everything that he desires is outside; and there is another kind where the things are behind the bars, and the man is outside.

Wherever any one is against his will, that is to him a prison.

I mean, what is prison, really, except a good bar without the liquor?

Thinking of the key, each confirms a prison.

Though chains be of gold, they are chains all the same.

The caged eagle become a metaphor for all forms of isolation, the ultimate in imprisonment. A zoo is prison.

What do you fear, lady?' he asked. 'A cage,' she said.

It's like an Alcatraz around my neck

I have never in my life walked with a harness. The weight of the tether, makes it feel like I'm dragging an anchor behind me.

I've come out of a small jail and entered a bigger one.