There is nothing more fundamental than the idea that the government does not have a right to decide when and whether we… — Gloria Steinem Copy Share Image
As for the American child's classic problem - too much mother, too little father - that would be cured by an equalization… — 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
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
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
They're all qualities wrongly called feminine: attention to detail, patience, empathy. I don't have children, but I was raised as a female… — Gloria Steinem Copy Share Image
More and more men are raising children or want to be close to their kids. They don't want to just lead work-obsessed… — Gloria Steinem Copy Share Image
I wasn't ever unable to function, but I did realize at some point that I had built a wall between myself and… — Gloria Steinem Copy Share Image
If technology and medicine are used by women to have children or not to have children or to have healthier children -… — Gloria Steinem Copy Share Image
It feels as if childhood sexual abuse or domestic abuse of women in the home has increased but actually if you ask… — Gloria Steinem Copy Share Image
As long as working women also have to do the work of child and family care at home, they will have two… — Gloria Steinem Copy Share Image
Having one's traditional role questioned is not a very comfortable experience, perhaps especially for women, who have been able to remain children,… — Gloria Steinem Copy Share Image
The women's movement and gay and lesbian movements always come together, and our adversaries are always the same because the male supremacist,… — Gloria Steinem Copy Share Image
I'm not saying that all women are blameless - all women are not. There are women with despicable characters who are cruel… — 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
I no longer believe the conservative message that children are naturally selfish and destructive creatures who need civilizing by hierarchies or painful… — Gloria Steinem Copy Share Image
When I was growing up, you were supposed to marry and therefore didn't plan ahead. Planning ahead is one of the few… — Gloria Steinem Copy Share Image
A lot of the people who are supposed to be enforcing the crime, enforcing the law, are also criminals. They've suppressed something… — 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
When you stand up for yourself and try to be autonomous and self-determining, you're called a lot of names that we all… — Gloria Steinem Copy Share Image
Women tend to need the healthcare system more because we bear children. Insurance companies - not all of them, but many of… — 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
I want to help correct the inaccurate image of immigration in the media. There is an idea that women's issues are over… — 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
I once fell in love with a man only because we both belonged to that large and secret club of children who… — 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
Nothing will happen automatically. Change depends on what you and I do every day. — Gloria Steinem Copy Share
Women are never again going to be mindless coffee-makers or mindless policy-makers in politics. — Gloria Steinem Copy Share
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
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
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
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
I started out life as a writer, and writers write in part because they don't want to talk. — Gloria Steinem Copy Share
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
“Part of traveling over years means coming back to the same place and knowing it for the first time.” — Gloria Steinem Copy Share
If you say, I'm for equal pay, that's a reform. But if you say. I'm a feminist, that's a transformation of society. — Gloria Steinem Copy Share
I think that part of everybody's success is due to their looks, but it just works in different ways. If you're whatever society calls… — Gloria Steinem Copy Share
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