“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.”
DreamsAll Quotes by Gloria Steinem
“For much of the female half of the world, food is the first signal of our inferiority. It lets us know that our own families may consider female bodies to be less deserving, less needy, less valuable.”
Food“Some of us are becoming the men we wanted to marry.”
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“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“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“Most women are one man away from welfare.”
Women“We've begun to raise daughters more like sons... but few have the courage to raise our sons more like our daughters.”
Courage“The first resistance to social change is to say it's not necessary.”
Change“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“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“Without leaps of imagination, or dreaming, we lose the excitement of possibilities. Dreaming, after all, is a form of planning.”
Dreams“Clearly no one knows what leadership has gone undiscovered in women of all races, and in black and other minority men.”
Leadership“If women have young children, they are one man away from welfare.”
Women“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“Power can be taken, but not given. The process of the taking is empowerment in itself.”
Power“Childbirth is more admirable than conquest, more amazing than self-defense, and as courageous as either one.”
Amazing“We'll never solve the feminization of power until we solve the masculinity of wealth.”
Power“The first problem for all of us, men and women, is not to learn, but to unlearn.”
Men“Hope is a very unruly emotion.”
Hope