Gloria Steinem Quotes

You can't always measure the effects of activist work; you just have to wish and pray that the message gets through.

Fluidity and discontinuity are central to the reality in which we live.

I don't think you can work on feelings in politics, apart from anything else, political change can come very unexpectedly, sometimes overnight when you least expect it.

Revolution is a phase, a mood, like spring, and just as spring has its buds and showers, so revolution has its ebullience, its bravery, its hope, and its solidarity. Some of these things pass.

Life is never all one thing. It bounces around. Certainly, my own life has.

Activism has been very productive in our society.

Activism could be defined as activities engaged in by individuals to change there of others situation.

We are all going to have to see pain if we are going to bring about change.

Change never comes from the White House. It comes from your house and my house.

Only force would produce social change.

Something is stirring in the hearts and minds of the people.

Every day is another something that comes along.

Like life, the beauty of sports is that no two periods are identical.

Millions don't rally to the banner of Uncertainty.

That's the great thing about this sport: it's always different.

Every game is going to be different.

I am not naive enough to believe that voting is the only way to bring about transformational change, just as I know that protest alone is not the sole solution to the challenges we face.

Every derby match is different, just like every season is different.

I am mindful that the goal of protest is not more protest, but the goal of protest is change.

If it’s a revolution it can’t be predictable. And if it’s predictable it can’t be a revolution.

[It's] not one thing this year, one thing another year.

Where's the activism? Nobody knows. And anyone who thinks they know, like Todd Gitlin, has their head up their ass. Nobody knows. The day before every revolution that's ever happened, that revolution was impossible. The day before Rosa Parks, that was impossible. The day after, it was inevitable.

I see the world in very fluid, contradictory, emerging, interconnected terms, and with that kind of circuitry I just don't feel the need to say what is going to happen or will not happen.

The most exciting things going on in America today are movements to change America.

Revolutionaries don't get job security.