“Men should think twice before making widow hood woman's only path to power.”
Power
“God may be in the details, but the goddess is in the questions. Once we begin to ask them, there's no turning back.”
GodAll Quotes by Gloria Steinem
“The first problem for all of us, men and women, is not to learn, but to unlearn.”
Men“I have yet to hear a man ask for advice on how to combine marriage and a career.”
Funny“Clearly no one knows what leadership has gone undiscovered in women of all races, and in black and other minority men.”
Leadership“Because I have work to care about, it is possible that I may be less difficult to get along with than other women when the double chins start to form.”
Women“God may be in the details, but the goddess is in the questions. Once we begin to ask them, there's no turning back.”
God“Most women's magazines simply try to mold women into bigger and better consumers.”
Women“Childbirth is more admirable than conquest, more amazing than self-defense, and as courageous as either one.”
Amazing“The first resistance to social change is to say it's not necessary.”
Change“No man can call himself liberal, or radical, or even a conservative advocate of fair play, if his work depends in any way on the unpaid or underpaid labor of women at home, or in the office.”
Home“Power can be taken, but not given. The process of the taking is empowerment in itself.”
Power“We'll never solve the feminization of power until we solve the masculinity of wealth.”
Power“If women have young children, they are one man away from welfare.”
Women“It's an incredible con job when you think about it, to believe something now in exchange for something after death. Even corporations with their reward systems don't try to make it posthumous.”
Death“Most American children suffer too much mother and too little father.”
Parenting“Planning ahead is a measure of class. The rich and even the middle class plan for future generations, but the poor can plan ahead only a few weeks or days.”
Future“If women are supposed to be less rational and more emotional at the beginning of our menstrual cycle when the female hormone is at its lowest level, then why isn't it logical to say that, in those few days, women behave the most like the way men behave all month long?”
Men“A liberated woman is one who has sex before marriage and a job after.”
Marriage“Happy or unhappy, families are all mysterious. We have only to imagine how differently we would be described - and will be, after our deaths - by each of the family members who believe they know us.”
Family“Without leaps of imagination, or dreaming, we lose the excitement of possibilities. Dreaming, after all, is a form of planning.”
Dreams