Gloria Steinem Quotes

We are still masters of our fate. We are still captains of our souls.

Whether or not we establish freedom rests with ourselves.

No one owns you. One hundred per cent of the stock in your personal corporation belongs to you.

We need to take responsibility and educate people. That's why black folks don't like me. I always say it's our responsibility to make safe neighborhoods. It's our job to get them cleaned up.

It's my life and my death.

Men must make their history themselves through their own actions

The essence of freedom is that each of us shares in the shaping of his own destiny.

Your character - you own it. That's something you have to grab hold of on 'This Is England'. Your character is your character.

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 believe at the heart of any revolution for social justice and human dignity are consent and agency, the unequivocal belief that I own my body - not the state, not the church/mosque/temple, not the street and not the family.

We all need to stand together and be a part of creating the future we hope to see.

This has always been my life and no one else's, and that's how it's always been since the day I came in it.

To rebuild confidence in the power of people working together to create something better, we must give people the power to do precisely that for themselves.

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

The capitalist system is out of control. Everybody should be their own leader. In our own lives and families and neighbourhoods, we can find solutions to live together in a more soulful way. Everybody can do it. That's what I try to do in my neighbourhood.

We want to control our own destiny and take responsibility for our own outcomes.

We always did everything ourselves.

Whether people agree with you or not, take an active role in what happens in your life.

There's an individual feminism, if you will, that you make your own choices.

Another person's life is that person's life. You can't take responsibility.

So our future is in our own hands. What greater free will do we need?

This is very true: For my words are my own, and my actions are my ministers.

It is time to stop waiting for someone to save us. It is time to face the truth of our situation - that we're all in this together, that we all have a voice - and figure out how to mobilize the hearts and minds of everyone in our workplaces and communities.

I always feel bad for those who, in a sense, cede their authority to others, let others make major decisions about their life and actually believe them. When you're tiny, you have no choice. But as soon as your mind starts working, you pretty well figure it out. And you realize you're a hostage until you're old enough to leave. But as long as you have that goal - I will get out of here - you'll be OK.

You can't go around building a better world for people. Only people can build a better world for people. Otherwise it's just a cage. Besides you don't build a better world by choppin' heads off and giving decent girls away to frogs.