Gloria Steinem Quotes

Love, work, and knowledge are the wellsprings of our lives, they should also govern it.

I needed to take a break from performing, and from the Peas, to be happy. I craved female time, and time with my husband to feed my soul. My life now is about being balanced. I'm passionate about work and working out, seeing friends and family, and letting my hair down once in a while.

You know, I looked at my face in the mirror this morning, and I like being old. My face has more content and when I train in the gym now, I am not training to be strong or handsome - just better than I was yesterday. These days the race is just against myself.

Nature gives you the face you have at twenty; it is up to you to merit the face you have at fifty.

I try to be conscious of others, put my best foot forward and show growth. I just try to be my best self - and I think that is the most important thing.

I think if I was not in love, I would probably let myself go faster. Love gives me the vanity to continue.

I have no way of comparing myself to other people my age; I can't compare myself with Jane Fonda, can I? I haven't had the work done. I admire the discipline of someone who maintains that degree of beauty, but I'm not prepared to do it.

I think it is up to each one of us to find the time and strike a balance between work and our personal life.

As you get older, it gets a bit harder to keep the spontaneity in you, but I work at it.

My mother, she's like, She can work on herself.

I always try and do my best and put out the best and find the best in me, as well. But I'm not thinking about it beforehand.

Over the last couple of years, I've really worked toward balancing my life out more, having a little bit more time with friends, family and my boyfriend. There was a period of time when they were way down the list. It was all about music and touring and if everything fell by the wayside, so be it.

I think I'm realising more and more that I've got a job to do and I can't be doing the big nights out and working to my full potential the next day. I feel much better for it.

While most people turn 21 and decide to go out and party, I turned 21 and decided that I was going to become somebody that I never thought I could be: somebody who cares about herself and her body, her future, and her health.

We either make ourselves miserable, or we make ourselves strong. The amount of work is the same.

Not many people do at the age of 21 or younger even, know how to act nor could be concerned with anything other than fighting, women and money.

There's this tradition of women's magazines - which have been my bread and butter as a freelancer - where the paradigm is that the writing is about relationships, body image, lessons, and it's always redemptive.

I find myself going out less and less. When you're 22 and see older people start to do that, it's depressing, but once you hit 30, you think, 'Wow, I've been working all week - it might be really nice to stay in!'

Find joy in everything you choose to do. Every job, relationship, home... it's your responsibility to love it, or change it.

I am really looking forward as I get older and older, to being less and less nice.

As I have got older, I have become easier on myself. It's about realising things can't be perfect.

I've always tried to do my very best, and I want to be the very best age, whatever age I am.

Women, more often than not, do things which aren't remotely relaxing but are all about preening, which is just another sort of work.

Just don't hate on anybody; just do what you, you know what I'm saying? Just do you. Just work at it, keep workin' at it.

I need to keep working on myself for a while.