A woman's heart is a deep ocean of secrets.
GLORIA STUART When I graduated from Santa Monica High in 1927, I was voted the girl most likely to succeed. I didn...
GLORIA STUART When I was little I thought, isn't it nice that everybody celebrates on my birthday? Because it&...
GLORIA STUART I have a private press. I'm a book artist. I publish books of other authors and artists. I do th...
GLORIA STUART [Williams herself drew criticism from Stuart.] I don't think it was necessary for us to know that Je...
GLORIA STUART When I graduated from Santa Monica High in 1927, I was voted the girl most likely to succeed. I didn...
GLORIA STUART It never occurred to me that it would be a big hit internationally and forever.
GLORIA STUART Like art, revolutions come from combining what exists into what has never existed before.
GLORIA STEINEM Feminism has never been about getting a job for one woman. It's about making life more fair for ...
GLORIA STEINEM The more I come to recognize my story's place in God's grander Story, my once-bewildered que...
GLORIA GAITHER My inspirations include the Beatles - love, love, love them - Elton John, Carole King, and Stevie Wo...
GLORIA ESTEFAN A transition to clean energy is about making an investment in our future.
GLORIA REUBEN In my own mind, I am still a fat brunette from Toledo, and I always will be.
GLORIA STEINEM Writing is the only thing that, when I do it, I don't feel I should be doing something else.
GLORIA STEINEM That's why you find a lot of entertainers are insecure, because it's the perfect camouflage ...
GLORIA GAYNOR What has the women's movement learned from Geraldine Ferraro's candidacy for vice president?...
GLORIA STEINEM I've yet to be on a campus where most women weren't worrying about some aspect of combining ...
GLORIA STEINEM Perfect is boring: Beauty is irregular.
GLORIA STEINEM Obviously, there is much similarity among the challenges of transgender people and all women - from ...
GLORIA STEINEM If you ask men about their body image, they will tell you they look better than they do. And if you ...
GLORIA STEINEM We'll never solve the feminization of power until we solve the masculinity of wealth.
GLORIA STEINEM The abolition and suffrage movements progressed when united and were damaged by division; we should ...
GLORIA STEINEM Pop culture shapes our ideas of what is normal and what our dreams can be and what our roles are. Po...
GLORIA STEINEM There's no greater gift than thinking that you had some impact on the world, for the better.
GLORIA STEINEM Nothing changes the gender equation more significantly than women's economic freedom.
GLORIA STEINEM God may be in the details, but the goddess is in the questions. Once we begin to ask them, there'...
GLORIA STEINEM The problem for all women is we're identified by how we look instead of by our heads and our hea...
GLORIA STEINEM Every social justice movement that I know of has come out of people sitting in small groups, telling...
GLORIA STEINEM Power can be taken, but not given. The process of the taking is empowerment in itself.
GLORIA STEINEM The future depends entirely on what each of us does every day; a movement is only people moving.
GLORIA STEINEM Part of the reason that women go to college is to get out of the food service, clerical, pink-collar...
GLORIA STEINEM The sad truth is that opportunity doesn't knock twice. You can put things off until tomorrow but to...
GLORIA ESTEFAN Men should think twice before making widow hood woman's only path to power.
GLORIA STEINEM Touring is hard. It's really hard on the singer, especially, because your body is your instrumen...
GLORIA ESTEFAN The first problem for all of us, men and women, is not to learn, but to unlearn.
GLORIA STEINEM The Paramount executives were so pleased with Sunset Boulevard that they asked me to do a publicity ...
GLORIA SWANSON Sunset Boulevard opened in August 1950, and it was pronounced the best movie ever made about Hollywo...
GLORIA SWANSON What I've learned is that unless it's an emergency, like a fire or brain surgery, hierarchy ...
GLORIA STEINEM A liberated woman is one who has sex before marriage and a job after.
GLORIA STEINEM If women are supposed to be less rational and more emotional at the beginning of our menstrual cycle...
GLORIA STEINEM By the year 2000 we will, I hope, raise our children to believe in human potential, not God.
GLORIA STEINEM When a person can no longer laugh at himself, it is time for others to laugh at him.
GLORIA VANDERBILT Procrastination is my sin. It brings me naught but sorrow. I know that I should stop it. In fact, I ...
GLORIA PITZER America is an enormous frosted cupcake in the middle of millions of starving people.
GLORIA STEINEM A feminist is anyone who recognizes the equality and full humanity of women and men.
GLORIA STEINEM Without leaps of imagination or dreaming, we lose the excitement of possibilities. Dreaming, after a...
GLORIA STEINEM This is no simple reform. It really is a revolution. Sex and race because they are easy and visible ...
GLORIA STEINEM They were all brilliant. They wrote books and painted pictures, and if they ever stopped talking, wh...
GLORIA WHELAN Most American children suffer too much mother and too little father.
GLORIA STEINEM The sad truth is that opportunity doesn't knock twice. You can put things off until tomorrow but tom...
GLORIA ESTEFAN Planning ahead is a measure of class. The rich and even the middle class plan for future generations...
GLORIA STEINEM The authority of any governing institution must stop at its citizen's skin.
GLORIA STEINEM However sugarcoated and ambiguous, every form of authoritarianism must start with a belief in some g...
GLORIA STEINEM I am big. It's the pictures that got small.
GLORIA SWANSON The fame you earn has a different taste from the fame that is forced upon you.
GLORIA VANDERBILT For women... bras, panties, bathing suits, and other stereotypical gear are visual reminders of a co...
GLORIA STEINEM The family is the basic cell of government: it is where we are trained to believe that we are human ...
GLORIA STEINEM Happy or unhappy, families are all mysterious. We have only to imagine how differently we would be d...
GLORIA STEINEM Someone once asked me why women don't gamble as much as men do, and I gave the common-sensical reply...
GLORIA STEINEM For much of the female half of the world, food is the first signal of our inferiority. It lets us kn...
GLORIA STEINEM Law and justice are not always the same. When they aren't, destroying the law may be the first step ...
GLORIA STEINEM The difference between pornography and erotica is lighting.
GLORIA LEONARD Pornography is about dominance. Erotica is about mutuality.
GLORIA STEINEM When I die, my epitaph should read: She Paid the Bills. That's the story of my private life.
GLORIA SWANSON Pornography is the instruction. Rape is the practice, battered women are the practice, and battered ...
GLORIA STEINEM Toys tossed on the floor
Hand prints on the wall
Slamming of the door
And footsteps down t...
GLORIA BABB I have yet to hear a man ask for advice on how to combine marriage and a career.
GLORIA STEINEM No man can call himself liberal, or radical, or even a conservative advocate of fair play, if his wo...
GLORIA STEINEM Any woman who chooses to behave like a full human being should be warned that the armies of the stat...
GLORIA STEINEM I know nothing about sex, because I was always married.
GLORIA LEONARD Power can be taken, but not given. The process of the taking is empowerment in itself.
GLORIA STEINEM We can tell our values by looking at our checkbook stubs.
GLORIA STEINEM . . . one of the goals of life is to try and be in touch with one's most personal themes -- the val...
GLORIA VANDERBILT Someone asked me why women don't gamble as much as men do, and I gave the commonsensical reply that ...
GLORIA STEINEM If men could get pregnant, abortion would be a sacrament.
GLORIA STEINEM The fame you earn has a different taste from the fame that is forced upon you.
GLORIA VANDERBILT It is by chance that we met, by choice that we became friends.
GLORIA NAYLOR Evil is obvious only in retrospect.
GLORIA STEINEM Each individual woman's body demands to be accepted on its own terms.
GLORIA STEINEM We are becoming the men we wanted to marry
GLORIA STEINEM Perhaps McCain has opposed affirmative action for so long that he doesn't know it's about in...
GLORIA STEINEM I looked up affirmative action once in Wikipedia, and it said, 'A measure by which white men are...
GLORIA STEINEM Childbirth is more admirable than conquest, more amazing than self-defense, and as courageous as eit...
GLORIA STEINEM You can see the absence of women in governing bodies from Congress to state legislators, on corporat...
GLORIA STEINEM Because I have work to care about, it is possible that I may be less difficult to get along with tha...
GLORIA STEINEM 'Ms.' always flouted the rules of the ad world that say, especially for products directed at...
GLORIA STEINEM There's no shortage of great young activists.
GLORIA STEINEM Gerda Lerner was fierce, brilliant and unique. She lived history by her bravery, restored history by...
GLORIA STEINEM Burnout is a way of telling you that your form of activism was perhaps not very full circle.
GLORIA STEINEM Motherhood is... difficult and... rewarding.
GLORIA ESTEFAN The sad truth is that opportunity doesn't knock twice.
GLORIA ESTEFAN The error that we tend to make is that we think that women's magazines are what editors want and...
GLORIA STEINEM The most hurtful thing is not what comes from our adversaries, it's what comes from our friends.
GLORIA STEINEM I think Hefner himself wants to go down in history as a person of sophistication and glamour. But th...
GLORIA STEINEM Anger is energising. The opposite of anger is depression, which is anger turned inward.
GLORIA STEINEM I hate to generalize, but in general, both men and women suffer from ageism. Men much less because m...
GLORIA STEINEM I'm very comfortable in my own skin now. I started just being myself more and more. For women, t...
GLORIA ESTEFAN Without leaps of imagination, or dreaming, we lose the excitement of possibilities. Dreaming, after ...
GLORIA STEINEM Do feminists have a sense of humor? Yes.
GLORIA ALLRED A gender-equal society would be one where the word 'gender' does not exist: where everyone c...
GLORIA STEINEM I became a fanatic about healthy food in 1944.
GLORIA SWANSON Old as she was, she still missed her daddy sometimes.
GLORIA NAYLOR You must always have great, secret, big fat hopes for yourself in love and in life. The bigger, the ...
GLORIA VANDERBILT Much as I cared for Joseph Kennedy, he was a classic example of that person in the arts with lots of...
GLORIA SWANSON The destruction of the natural beauty, the ecosystems, and the majesty of mountains affect us in way...
GLORIA REUBEN I felt as if I had no control over what I said, as if loathsome, ugly words were waiting inside me l...
GLORIA WHELAN I remember someone once asked Jack Kennedy why he was paying such close attention to the renovation ...
GLORIA STEINEM I had starred in more than 30 successful films, six in a row directed by Cecil B. De Mille.
GLORIA SWANSON All women, and men of color - we were owned like tables and chairs. We spent a hundred years getting...
GLORIA STEINEM Men should think twice before making widowhood women's only path to power.
GLORIA STEINEM From pacifist to terrorist, each person condemns violence - and then adds one cherished case in whic...
GLORIA STEINEM I think there should be better child support laws to make it easier for those single moms to support...
GLORIA ALLRED The Native American cultures on this continent, most of them, were matrilineal, and some women were ...
GLORIA STEINEM Now that she had actually seen and accepted reality, and reality brought such a healing calm.
GLORIA NAYLOR But will you not have a house to care for? Meals to cook? Children whining for this or that? Will yo...
GLORIA WHELAN The caste systems of sex and race are interdependent and can only be uprooted together.
GLORIA STEINEM We are still behaving as if a worker really doesn't have a family because the work pattern reall...
GLORIA STEINEM Any woman who chooses to behave like a full human being should be warned that the armies of the stat...
GLORIA STEINEM We've begun to raise daughters more like sons... but few have the courage to raise our sons more...
GLORIA STEINEM I was born during an eclipse. I believe very much in astrology. If you were born on an eclipse it in...
GLORIA VANDERBILT All art, from the paintings on the walls of cave dwellers to art created today, is autobiographical ...
GLORIA VANDERBILT I'd like to be played as a child by Natalie Wood. I'd have some romantic scenes as Audrey He...
GLORIA STEINEM As an immigrant, I appreciate, far more than the average American, the liberties we have in this cou...
GLORIA ESTEFAN A parking lot attendant who's a guy makes a lot more money than a child-care attendant who's...
GLORIA STEINEM It is very frightening to feel alone when you are standing against a rich and powerful person and al...
GLORIA ALLRED Obviously there is no such thing as race, and in many ways, sex is a continuum, not a binary. So it ...
GLORIA STEINEM We protect aspirin bottles in this country better than we protect guns from accidents by children.
GLORIA ESTEFAN I do take very good care of myself, and I'm always in love. And by that I mean I have an appetit...
GLORIA VANDERBILT I could have had someone else take care of my child but I did it because that was my moral obligatio...
GLORIA ALLRED I think I sound like Barry White.
GLORIA GAYNOR The state of female artists is very good. But the very definition of art has been biased in that ...
GLORIA STEINEM Being misunderstood by people whose opinions you value is absolutely the most painful.
GLORIA STEINEM Life and death. They are somehow sweetly and beautifully mixed, but I don't know how.
GLORIA SWANSON I think everyone envisions me sitting at Alexandre's all day, picking out beautiful clothes from...
GLORIA GUINNESS Men have a much better time of it than women: for one thing they marry later, for another thing they...
GLORIA STEINEM Marriage: A ceremony in which rings are put on the finger of the lady and through the nose of the ge...
GLORIA STEINEM The first problem for all of us men and women is not to learn, but to unlearn.
GLORIA STEINEM The only thing I can't stand is discomfort.
GLORIA STEINEM A woman without a man is like a fish without a bicycle.
GLORIA STEINEM Any woman who chooses to behave like a full human being should be warned that the armies of the stat...
GLORIA STEINEM I don't believe that life is supposed to make you feel good, or make you feel miserable either. Life...
GLORIA NAYLOR If men menstruated, they would brag about how much and for how long.
GLORIA STEINEM Some of us are becoming the men we wanted to marry.
GLORIA STEINEM I can't mate in captivity.
GLORIA STEINEM As Daddy said, life is 95 percent anticipation.
GLORIA SWANSON I always anticipated difficulties in order to avoid scenes.
GLORIA SWANSON Women are more than smart enough to see that McCain's policies are a disaster... He is anti- eve...
GLORIA STEINEM Gender is probably the most restricting force in American life.
GLORIA STEINEM Many times, working is kind of like channeling, and I really don't know what's going to fall...
GLORIA VANDERBILT Mama grizzlies mate later than other bears. They have two cubs instead of four. They wait four years...
GLORIA STEINEM I don't want anything from Cuba. I want them to be free and enjoy the things I enjoy.
GLORIA ESTEFAN I'm so happy that we're finally hearing the stories and voices of women who make America. We...
GLORIA STEINEM Far too many people are looking for the right person, instead of trying to be the right person.
GLORIA STEINEM Comprehensive climate legislation must be passed so that we can ensure a world where this and future...
GLORIA REUBEN You're always the person you were when you were born," she says impatiently. "You just keep finding ...
GLORIA STEINEM I didn't want to spend the rest of my life playing Norma Desmond over and over again.
GLORIA SWANSON To say 'radical feminist' is only a way of indicating that I believe the sexual caste system...
GLORIA STEINEM My family was musical on both sides. My father's family had a famous flautist and a classical pi...
GLORIA ESTEFAN The only way a woman can ever reform her husband is by boring him so completely that he loses all p...
GLORIA SWANSON I've given my memoirs far more thought than any of my marriages. You can't divorce a book.
GLORIA SWANSON Prayer does not cause faith to work, faith causes prayer to work.
GLORIA COPELAND I am declaring a state of emergency because of the clear threat to the nation.
GLORIA ARROYO There are no more seditious rallies going on now, and many of the coup plotters have been arrested,
GLORIA ARROYO There is absolutely no justification for the actions you have taken, ... You have already defamed th...
GLORIA ARROYO I hope that this will soon pass not only in the House but also the Senate,
GLORIA ARROYO [One protest leader, Renato Reyes, said that a] people power ... September storm if the impeachment ...
GLORIA ARROYO I made a decision to bring our troops home a few days early in order to spare the life of Angelo. I ...
GLORIA ARROYO One of the documents he inadvertently left behind was a draft of a document proclaiming himself as p...
GLORIA ARROYO I'm happy to announce that our long national vigil involving Angel [de] la Cruz is over. I thank the...
GLORIA ARROYO The new Bali attacks after the London attacks show the resiliency of terrorists to strike targets wh...
GLORIA ARROYO History will mark its day of sadness when a great liberator of the Filipino people and a champion of...
GLORIA ARROYO Amber in good faith always believed that Mr. Flores was her child's father.
GLORIA ALLRED Gwen was not there to deceive anyone. She had the right to live honestly.
GLORIA ALLRED Moe was like their child in many ways,
GLORIA ALLRED He still loves Moe,
GLORIA ALLRED We recognize that Ms. Love has a serious problem with substance abuse, but that does not excuse or j...
GLORIA ALLRED We think it is time for Ms. Love to take full financial responsibility for her assault on Ms. King,
GLORIA ALLRED This was an unwarranted and vicious attack.
GLORIA ALLRED Only after the results of a recent DNA test taken by the true biological father did Amber realize th...
GLORIA ALLRED Now they come back with 39 counts. So this appears to be punitive. This appears to be retaliatory.
GLORIA ALLRED We think these women had a reasonable expectation of privacy. It's against the law in California to ...
GLORIA ALLRED He said if (the U.S. team) loses, he can say he did his best and that he was prepared for it. It bui...
GLORIA ADAMS The most important thing is to get quality names and go from there.
GLORIA ADAMS We do watch which files we send overseas. There are some [for which] you don't want to have foreign ...
GLORIA ADAMS We have some magazines that have added thousands of international subscribers with nearly no marketi...
GLORIA ADAMS If you're going to have a male-dominant system, to maintain the system, you have to teach men to...
GLORIA STEINEM Writing the story of your own life is a bit like drilling your own teeth.
GLORIA SWANSON Movements are like rivers. Dipping into them is never the same twice.
GLORIA STEINEM Throughout my life I have taken detours in acting and writing, but art remains my abiding passion.
GLORIA VANDERBILT Diane Keaton is good for women in and of herself. She's smart and funny and real.
GLORIA STEINEM This country can no longer afford to choose our leaders from a talent pool limited by sex, race, mon...
GLORIA STEINEM There are so many difficult things we're living through in the world today, so many horrible eve...
GLORIA ESTEFAN My job as an entertainer is to take you some place else. I love exploring different genres of music ...
GLORIA ESTEFAN I always wanted to put a sign up on the road to Yale saying, 'Beware: Deconstruction Ahead.'
GLORIA STEINEM Bigamy is having one wife too many. Monogamy is the same.
GLORIA SWANSON Logic is in the eye of the logician.
GLORIA STEINEM . . . as for logic, it's in the eye of the logician.
GLORIA STEINEM That is the best - to laugh with someone because you both think the same things are funny.
GLORIA VANDERBILT For most folks, no news is good news; for the press, good news is not news.
GLORIA BORGER Never say never, for if you live long enough, chances are you will not be able to abide by its restr...
GLORIA SWANSON