“If women have young children, they are one man away from welfare.”
Women
“A liberated woman is one who has sex before marriage and a job after.”
MarriageAll Quotes by Gloria Steinem
“We've begun to raise daughters more like sons... but few have the courage to raise our sons more like our daughters.”
Courage“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“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“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“We'll never solve the feminization of power until we solve the masculinity of wealth.”
Power“Most women's magazines simply try to mold women into bigger and better consumers.”
Women“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“Hope is a very unruly emotion.”
Hope“If the shoe doesn't fit, must we change the foot?”
Change“The first problem for all of us, men and women, is not to learn, but to unlearn.”
Men“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“Men should think twice before making widow hood woman's only path to power.”
Power“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“Most American children suffer too much mother and too little father.”
Parenting“Some of us are becoming the men we wanted to marry.”
Women“A liberated woman is one who has sex before marriage and a job after.”
Marriage“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“I have yet to hear a man ask for advice on how to combine marriage and a career.”
Funny“Without leaps of imagination, or dreaming, we lose the excitement of possibilities. Dreaming, after all, is a form of planning.”
Dreams