Gloria Steinem Quotes

A round man cannot be expected to fit in a square hole right away. He must have time to modify his shape.

We have to show people we are willing to adapt to their world.

You've got to bend with the wind or you're broken.

When the wind blows,the grass bends.

Sometimes altering your position is the right thing. Sometimes it's not.

Nothing remains great without a capacity to change and to accommodate the conditions of a changing world.

If you never budge, don't expect a push.

We just can't change the rules if we don't like the results.

We must all learn to adjust with our surroundings.

There's always some room for improvisation.

Custom adapts itself to expediency.

You have to adapt your policies to changing circumstances.

Abraham Lincoln and Everett Dirksen understood with singular clarity that a great and diverse people do not speak with a single voice and that adherence to a rigid ideology leaves little room for compromise and response to change.

Stand not against the stream.

We must do as we may when we may not do as we would.

Loyalty to petrified opinion never yet broke a chain or freed a human soul in this world--and never will.

As you grow older, you become - everybody becomes - less inflexible and a little more accommodating.

You just gotta change your game to the environment.

Change has to come. It's not always what you'd like. It's what other people like.

As soon as I hear that there's something to get used to, I know that I won't; I sort of pledge myself to not getting used to it.

Being 'Strictlyfied' is the opposite to who I am normally, but on this show, you definitely have to go with the flow.

I like to think I'm like water that adapts to its surroundings and eventually finds a way in.

The policy of adapting one's self to circumstances makes all ways smooth.

Man adapts himself to everything, to the best and the worst.

You'd be surprised how many people violate this simple principle every day of their lives and try to fit square pegs into round holes, ignoring the clear reality that Things Are As They Are.