My father was the Jewish half of the family, yet it was my mother who taught me to have pride in that… — Gloria Steinem Copy Share Image
We're never going to have democratic countries or peaceful countries until we have democratic or peaceful families. — Gloria Steinem Copy Share Image
Happy or unhappy, families are all mysterious. We have only to imagine how differently we would be described - and will be,… — Gloria Steinem Copy Share Image
We do what we see and what we're told. If we haven't been raised in a family or in a community where… — Gloria Steinem Copy Share Image
When I was little, I knew that I was not adopted, but I actually imagined and hoped that I was, and that… — Gloria Steinem Copy Share Image
Anyone who has ever experienced dehumanized life on welfare or any other confidence-shaking dependency knows that a paid job may be preferable… — 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
We are still behaving as if a worker really doesn't have a family because the work pattern really was meant for men… — 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
The family is the basic cell of government: it is where we are trained to believe that we are human beings or… — Gloria Steinem Copy Share Image
Probably those three things affect the most people: reproductive freedom, freedom from violence, and democratic families. But there may well be someone… — Gloria Steinem Copy Share Image
For girls and women, storytelling has a double and triple importance. Because the stories of our lives have been marginalized and ignored… — Gloria Steinem Copy Share Image
The patterns that are normalized in the family - the whole idea that some people cook and some people eat, that some… — Gloria Steinem Copy Share Image
In the U.S. for instance, the value of a homemaker's productive work has been imputed mostly when she was maimed or killed… — 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
If we were going to address what involves the biggest number of women, reproductive freedom is a fundamental human right - like… — Gloria Steinem Copy Share Image
“During World War II, a few years after Norma Jeane’s time in an orphanage, thousands of children were evacuated from the air… — Gloria Steinem Copy Share Image
If we're by ourselves we come to feel crazy and alone. We need to make alternate families of small groups of women… — Gloria Steinem Copy Share Image
The thing about aging is all your old lovers, pretty much if they were really friends, become your family. It's great. You… — 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
