“If the shoe doesn't fit, must we change the foot?”
Change
“Without leaps of imagination, or dreaming, we lose the excitement of possibilities. Dreaming, after all, is a form of planning.”
DreamsAll Quotes by Gloria Steinem
“The first problem for all of us, men and women, is not to learn, but to unlearn.”
Men“Men should think twice before making widow hood woman's only path to power.”
Power“Clearly no one knows what leadership has gone undiscovered in women of all races, and in black and other minority men.”
Leadership“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“I've yet to be on a campus where most women weren't worrying about some aspect of combining marriage, children, and a career. I've yet to find one where many men were worrying about the same thing.”
Marriage“I'd like to be played as a child by Natalie Wood. I'd have some romantic scenes as Audrey Hepburn and have gritty black-and-white scenes as Patricia Neal.”
Romantic“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“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“Most women's magazines simply try to mold women into bigger and better consumers.”
Women“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.”
Society“Childbirth is more admirable than conquest, more amazing than self-defense, and as courageous as either one.”
Amazing“It is more rewarding to watch money change the world than watch it accumulate.”
Change“We'll never solve the feminization of power until we solve the masculinity of wealth.”
Power“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“If women have young children, they are one man away from welfare.”
Women“I have yet to hear a man ask for advice on how to combine marriage and a career.”
Funny“The first resistance to social change is to say it's not necessary.”
Change“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“Power can be taken, but not given. The process of the taking is empowerment in itself.”
Power