Gloria Steinem Quotes

Do not internalize the industrial model. You are not one of the myriad interchangeable pieces, but a unique human being, and if you've got something to say, say it, and think well of yourself while you're learning to say it better.

If you have some respect for people as they are, you can be more effective in helping them to become better than they are.

The making of a whole person and the creation of true individuals can only happen by singing and dancing and making art.

The more that I looked at DNA, the more I realized it was nature and nurture. It's how genes and your environment work together to produce the person you are.

You can't just shuffle people around like they're deck chairs on a ship. You have to help them change their lives, and you have to give them the requisite resources to do so.

Beauty can grow as a whole, since you shouldn't copy other people.

Every single person has a life to live, a work to do, a glorious personality, a wonderful individuality.

Whatever an education is, it should make you a unique individual, not a conformist.

We are unique, each human voice, not because we are completely self-generated, but because of who we choose to assemble the countless factors that made us.

When you get to heaven God won't ask you why you weren't more like Billy Graham. He may ask you why you weren't more like you. Get in touch with who you are. Lead with your own unique style. Be yourself and let God use you.

Just as cherry, plum, peach and damson blossoms all possess their own unique qualities, each person is unique. We cannot become someone else. The important thing is that we live true to ourselves and cause the great flower of our lives to blossom.

I believe in teaching people to be individuals, and to understand other individuals.

Think about what kind of person you are and shape your habits, and your happiness, to show what's true about you instead of thinking that you can just import the right answer from the outside.

You cannot be who and what you are unless you have a lifestyle, both internally and externally, that is designed to support that definition of self.

There is no recipe for success - it is as unique as you are

The function of education is to help you from childhood not to imitate anybody, but be yourself all the time.

It takes a long time to sound like yourself.

Individuality' is the key to success.

I think people kind of come in who they are, and it sort of doesn't even matter who their parents are - it can affect you a little bit, and you can be guided and shaped.

Every man's foremost task is the actualization of his unique, unprecedented and never-recurring potentialities, and not the repetition of something that another, and be it even the greatest, has already achieved.

Our problem is to become acquainted with our own selves, letting our personalities loose upon the world for the sheer adventure of their full development and in the positive hope that they may in their own way lift the level of humanity.

The worst thing you can do is say to yourself, "I want to be just like somebody else." You have to absorb knowledge from someone else, but ultimately you have to find your own voice.

The personality is a work of art.

If I wasted my time trying to be like everybody else when I was 10 and 11, I wouldn't be me today. So if you are gonna be the future rockstars, the future somebody, whatever you wanna be then you're wasting your time trying to be somebody else, because you'll never get to you.

Don't follow in my footsteps. Be original, and create your own path. Be a trailblazer! Do you! Be better than me. Do you! Be happy and have joy in your life.