"My Life on the Road" Quotes
A memoir of Gloria Steinem's experiences traveling and advocating for social and political change.
nonfiction | 276 pages | Published in 2015
Quotes
The road is messy in the way that real life is messy. It leads us out of denial and into reality, out of theory and into practice, out of caution and into action, out of statistics and into stories.
I do not like hierarchy. I have always believed that each person's work is equally important.
The most important thing we can do is inspire young minds and to advance the kind of science, math and technology education that will help youngsters take us to the next phase of space travel.
Whatever you want to do, just do it... Making a damn fool of yourself is absolutely essential.
Far too many people are looking for the right person, instead of trying to be the right person.
In my experience, being on the road is the best way to understand who you are and how you fit into the world.
Writing is the only thing that, when I do it, I don't feel I should be doing something else.
Some of us are becoming the men we wanted to marry.
The art of life isn't controlling what happens to us, but using what happens to us.
Each of us needs to withdraw from the cares which will not withdraw from us.





