Gloria Steinem Quotes

I wanted to be in control of my own destiny.

Madonna has total control over her life, and not many women have that.

If there was any one achievement, it would be that we've have done it on our own terms.

I don't like definitions, but if there is a definition of freedom, it would be when you have control over your reality to transform it, to change it, rather than having it imposed upon you. You can't really ask for more than.

There's this moment when kids realize that they have power and that they can use it.

I can do whatever I want.

I'm trying to do it my way. For me to be happy in the business means I have to do it myself.

Can't nothing make your life work if you ain't the architect.

I want to go out on my terms.

The most common way people give up their power is by thinking they don't have any.

Negative freedom is freedom from - freedom from oppression, whether it's a colonial power or addiction to alcohol oppressing you. You need to be freed from negative freedom. Positive freedom is freedom for, freedom to be. And that's what's routinely ignored today.

Mostly, I'm in the very enviable position that no one dictates what I do.

We are no longer puppets being manipulated by outside powerful forces: we become the powerful force ourselves.

Stand-up is the only thing I have complete control over. There's something to be said for that.

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

Those of us who submitted or surrendered our ideas and dreams and identities to the 'leaders' must take back our rights, our identities, our responsibilities.

I like being in control of my own destiny, really.

Nobody can shut the door in your face if you own the door.

Even more than feeling healthy, most people want to feel free and in control.

Most powerful is he who has himself in his own power.

A desire to be in charge of our own lives, a need for control, is born in each of us. It is essential to our mental health, and our success, that we take control.

I never going to satisfy everybody, so I decided to satisfy myself.

I enjoy making the decisions.

You will not make a man wiser by taking freedom of action from him. A man can only learn when he is free to act.

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