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
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
There are many more women who identify as unique people as well as mothers, or instead of as mothers, than there used… — 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
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
Mother’s Day really was in its origin an antiwar day, an antiwar statement. Julia Ward Howe was sickened by what had happened… — 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
Most American children suffer too much mother and too little father. — Gloria Steinem Copy Share Image
“Judy Collins sings about in “The Blizzard,” or read Alice Walker’s essay “My Father’s Country Is the Poor.” Each” — Gloria Steinem Copy Share Image
A lot of my generation are living out the un-lived lives of our mothers. — Gloria Steinem Copy Share Image
Like so many women, I was living out the unlived life of my mother - so I wouldn't be her. But the… — Gloria Steinem Copy Share Image
Most American children suffertoo much mother and too little father. — Gloria Steinem Copy Share Image
“Nor was he around when I finally understood that having a loving and nurturing father made a lifetime of difference. Only after… — Gloria Steinem Copy Share Image
In retrospect, perhaps the biggest reason my mother was cared for but not helped for twenty years was the simplest: Her functioning… — 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
When I'm talking to groups that are all men, we talk about how the masculine role limits them. They often want to… — Gloria Steinem Copy Share Image
If you look at many of the women who find themselves with cold, distant, difficult, cruel men, it's because they had cold,… — Gloria Steinem Copy Share Image
This country can no longer afford to choose our leaders from a talent pool limited by sex, race, money, powerful fathers and… — Gloria Steinem Copy Share Image
The father who raises a son to have a profession he once dreamed of, and the mother who uses her daughter as… — 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… — Gloria Steinem Copy Share Image
I don't know if fury can compete with necessity as the mother of invention, but I recommend it. — Gloria Steinem Copy Share Image
Like so many women, I was living out the unlived life of my mother, so I wouldn't be her. But the price… — Gloria Steinem Copy Share Image
Most of us are living out the unlived lives of our mothers, because they were not able to become the unique people… — Gloria Steinem Copy Share Image
I think we spend a lot of time denying our mothers. We understand other women earlier than we understand our mothers because… — 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
