Gloria Steinem Quotes

In each of us there dwells a mystery, and that mystery is the human personality.

I just feel like people are who they are.

A character is a completely fashioned will.

There is always a human being behind the titles and the status.

The period from conception to two is about the development of a baby's emotional capacities. Mum saying, 'Oh, darling, I love you,' and singing baby songs and pulling faces literally stimulates the synapses in the brain.

I think, personally, it's our flaws that define us to us - or maybe it's just me.

I know that I am more than my personality, my body, and my body image.

You can't really make people be any different than what they are.

Personality is and does something...It is what lies behind specific acts and within the individual

Of all the things which a man has, next to the gods his soul is the most divine and most truly his own.

It took me years to learn that character is fate and that no one can be made over.

Anybody who has ever met a baby knows there is already a person in there.

The whole work of man really seems to consist in nothing but proving to himself every minute that he is a man and not a piano key.

Character is just what we inwardly are and outwardly do.

It's saying no. That's your first hint that something's alive. It says no. That's how you know a baby is starting to turn into a person. They run around saying no all day, throwing their aliveness at everything to see what it'll stick to. You can't say no if you don't have desires and opinions and wants of your own. You wouldn't even want to. No is the heart of thinking.

Even if you tried to extinguish your personality, what is left in the story will reflect it, perhaps by its negation. Our lives provide the bricks from which we build these cathedrals.

The self is our life's goal, for it is the completest expression of that fateful combination we call individuality.

What you love and what you hate reveal what you are.

Imperfections create character.

The self is the modern substitute for the soul.

As a consumer of entertainment, as a director, I'm always interested in questions of identity and who someone is and how they're perceived and who they are versus who they thought they'd be.

There is a kind of character in thy life, That to the observer doth thy history, fully unfold.

Our passions are ourselves.

All one's personality is embedded in gloves and hats after they've been good and used. Show me a glove and I'll tell you the character of its owner.