In a community center in India once, somebody said, 'Aren't you sorry you don't have children?' And I thought, 'If I answer… — Gloria Steinem Copy Share Image
It's a fundamental human right to decide to have children or not to have children. — Gloria Steinem Copy Share Image
“People want to come home to the church of their childhood without having to leave their adult selves behind.” — Gloria Steinem Copy Share Image
Life after 50 or 60 is itself another country, as different as adolescence is from childhood, or as adulthood is from adolescence… — Gloria Steinem Copy Share Image
“We understand that being able to help dependent children find what they need can be a gift in itself. Why shouldn’t we… — Gloria Steinem Copy Share Image
Most American children suffertoo much mother and too little father. — Gloria Steinem Copy Share Image
What would happen if we listened to children as much as we talked to them? — Gloria Steinem Copy Share Image
We've begun to raise daughters more like sons... but few have the courage to raise our sons more like our daughters. — Gloria Steinem Copy Share Image
“If you are a woman who has chosen not to have children, society will always ask you to justify it.” — Gloria Steinem Copy Share Image
I'm completely happy not having children. I mean, everybody does not have to live in the same way. And as somebody said,… — Gloria Steinem Copy Share Image
But somewhere within each of us, buried at varying depths depending on the age and degree of neglect or abuse, shame or… — Gloria Steinem Copy Share Image
Children who have been very sadistically abused over the long-term are able to dissociate, some of them are able to dissociate as… — Gloria Steinem Copy Share Image
Now, we've made the revolutionary discovery that children have two parents. A decade ago even the kindly Dr. Spock held mothers solely… — Gloria Steinem Copy Share Image
The deepest change begins with men raising children as much as women do and women being equal actors in the world outside… — Gloria Steinem Copy Share Image
It's the biggest economic influence in a woman's life whether she can decide when and whether to have children or not. — Gloria Steinem Copy Share Image
The U.S. has more guns per capita and supplies more guns to the world than any other country. What would be a… — Gloria Steinem Copy Share Image
Pornography is the instruction. Rape is the practice, battered women are the practice, and battered children are the practice. — Gloria Steinem Copy Share Image
If we have reproductive freedom, that is the ability to decide for ourselves when and whether to have children and what happens… — Gloria Steinem Copy Share Image
Women are only half responsible for children. Men raise children as much as women do. Until men are as nurturing as women… — Gloria Steinem Copy Share Image
I've yet to be on a campus where most women weren't worrying about some aspect of combining marriage, children, and a career.… — Gloria Steinem Copy Share Image
Allowing women the power to decide when and whether to have children is the only way to solve the 7 billion human… — Gloria Steinem Copy Share Image
[On gender-rating by insurance companies:] They say the reason they get to charge more is we have children. I would say having… — Gloria Steinem Copy Share Image
You're afraid to be close to women. Because it's not masculine to be close to women. The last time you were close… — Gloria Steinem Copy Share Image
People waste more time waiting for someone to take charge of their lives than they do in any other pursuit. — Gloria Steinem Copy Share Image
Nothing will happen automatically. Change depends on what you and I do every day. — Gloria Steinem Copy Share Image
Women are never again going to be mindless coffee-makers or mindless policy-makers in politics. — Gloria Steinem Copy Share Image
The state of female artists is very good. But the very definition of art has been biased in that 'art' was what men did… — Gloria Steinem Copy Share Image
We will live to see the day that St. Patrick's Cathedral is a child-care center and the pope is no longer a disgrace to… — Gloria Steinem Copy Share Image
Just when you thought multi-nationals and crazed consumerism were too big to fight, along comes Naomi Klein with facts, spirit, and news of successful… — Gloria Steinem Copy Share Image
I don't know Beyoncé, but I have the impression that she's sincere, that she really is a feminist and wanted to put the word… — Gloria Steinem Copy Share Image
I started out life as a writer, and writers write in part because they don't want to talk. — Gloria Steinem Copy Share Image
Sadomasochiasm - which we know very well doesn't exist in societies that don't have child abuse - is regarded some sort of natural sexual… — Gloria Steinem Copy Share Image
“Part of traveling over years means coming back to the same place and knowing it for the first time.” — Gloria Steinem Copy Share Image
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