Gloria Steinem Quotes

Only you yourself can be your liberator!

Freedom is an internal achievement rather than an external adjustment.

Freedom is from within.

Freedom is internal. Another group cannot give you freedom.

in freeing myself from the romantic dream of finding another man to come along and rescue me, I learned that no one can rescue me except myself.

No one saves us but ourselves. No one can and no one may. We ourselves must walk the path.

Work out your own salvation. Do not depend on others.

The only solutions that are ever worth anything are the solutions that people find themselves.

It's a life's journey of finding ourselves, finding our power, and living for yourself, not for everyone else.

I don't think anyone has made me except myself. I think I have done it on my own.

But the whole point of liberation is that you get out. Restructure your life. Act by yourself.

Claiming your life for yourself feels like a huge deal until you do it.

You can be bound by physical things, as I am by certain sicknesses, but nevertheless you can still be free to recognize that all initiatives really come from yourself if you don't depend upon structures of government or structures of any kind.

Maturity includes the recognition that no one is going to see anything in us that we don't see in ourselves. Stop waiting for a producer. Produce yourself.

I always had that yearning, that hunger, to one day be independent and be my own person and build my own world. The most fulfilling thing is to live a life where you have freedom.

Let us first obtain ourselves…Give us ourselves and all that belongs to us will follow.

Whoever will be free must make himself free. Freedom is no fairy gift to fall into a man's lap.

To make your own family is just the most empowering thing ever. It's the greatest thing you can ever pull off.

The most terrifying thing for most everybody in the whole Western World is to take responsibility for your own life and to experience real freedom.

Show people a positive path that enables them to make progress on their own terms. Give them options and alternatives that empower them.

You have to empower yourself.

It is only by giving people the tools to empower themselves will they be able to achieve their potential.

For me, growth and empowerment are about giving a woman a choice.

I've never felt like I was living in anyone's shadow. My life was what it was.

You do not start by working on society; you start by yourself to be a freer person and a more independent person.