Housewives are dependent creatures who are still children…parasites.
GLORIA STEINEMHousewives are dependent creatures who are still children…parasites.
GLORIA STEINEMBeing married is like having somebody permanently in your corner. It feels limitless, not limited.
GLORIA STEINEMWomen have two choices: Either she’s a feminist or a masochist.
GLORIA STEINEMWe’ve begun to raise daughters more like sons… but few have the courage to raise our sons more like our daughters.
GLORIA STEINEMMarriage works best for men than women. The two happiest groups are married men and unmarried women.
GLORIA STEINEMInner space is the real frontier.
GLORIA STEINEMThe purpose of feminism is to free the uniqueness of the individual and to understand that inside each of us is a unique human being who is a combination of heredity and environment.
GLORIA STEINEMWithout leaps of imagination, or dreaming, we lose the excitement of possibilities. Dreaming, after all, is a form of planning.
GLORIA STEINEMThe art of life is not controlling what happens to us, but using what happens to us
GLORIA STEINEMWomen are not going to be equal outside the home until men are equal in it.
GLORIA STEINEMSo why is the sex barrier not taken as seriously as the racial one?
GLORIA STEINEMI believe a unique core self is born into every human being; the result of millennia of environment and heredity combined in an unpredictable way that could never happen before or again.
GLORIA STEINEMLife after 50 or 60 is itself another country, as different as adolescence is from childhood, or as adulthood is from adolescence – and just as adventurous.
GLORIA STEINEMNo one can give us power. If we aren’t part of the process of taking it, we won’t be strong enough to use it.
GLORIA STEINEM[on sexual politics] The Golden Rule works for men as written, but for women it should go the other way around. We need to do unto ourselves as we do unto others.
GLORIA STEINEMBattered women is a phrase that uncovered major, long-hidden violence. It helps us to face the fact that, statistically speaking, the most dangerous place for a woman is in her own home, not in the streets.
GLORIA STEINEM