“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.”
MenAll Quotes by Gloria Steinem
“It is more rewarding to watch money change the world than watch it accumulate.”
Change“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'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“Clearly no one knows what leadership has gone undiscovered in women of all races, and in black and other minority men.”
Leadership“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 women's magazines simply try to mold women into bigger and better consumers.”
Women“I have yet to hear a man ask for advice on how to combine marriage and a career.”
Funny“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“We'll never solve the feminization of power until we solve the masculinity of wealth.”
Power“Childbirth is more admirable than conquest, more amazing than self-defense, and as courageous as either one.”
Amazing“Most American children suffer too much mother and too little father.”
Parenting“Power can be taken, but not given. The process of the taking is empowerment in itself.”
Power“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 have young children, they are one man away from welfare.”
Women“Without leaps of imagination, or dreaming, we lose the excitement of possibilities. Dreaming, after all, is a form of planning.”
Dreams“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“The future depends entirely on what each of us does every day a movement is only people moving.”
Future“Most women are one man away from welfare.”
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