“If the shoe doesn't fit, must we change the foot?”
Change
“I have yet to hear a man ask for advice on how to combine marriage and a career.”
FunnyAll Quotes by Gloria Steinem
“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“Power can be taken, but not given. The process of the taking is empowerment in itself.”
Power“Clearly no one knows what leadership has gone undiscovered in women of all races, and in black and other minority men.”
Leadership“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“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“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“I have yet to hear a man ask for advice on how to combine marriage and a career.”
Funny“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“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“Most women's magazines simply try to mold women into bigger and better consumers.”
Women“If women have young children, they are one man away from welfare.”
Women“Men should think twice before making widow hood woman's only path to power.”
Power“The first problem for all of us, men and women, is not to learn, but to unlearn.”
Men“We've begun to raise daughters more like sons... but few have the courage to raise our sons more like our daughters.”
Courage“It is more rewarding to watch money change the world than watch it accumulate.”
Change“Most American children suffer too much mother and too little father.”
Parenting“Without leaps of imagination, or dreaming, we lose the excitement of possibilities. Dreaming, after all, is a form of planning.”
Dreams