Most American children suffer too much mother and too little father.
GLORIA STEINEMHousewives are dependent creatures who are still children, parasites.
More Gloria Steinem Quotes
-
-
Women must have seats at the table because peace is too crucial to be left only to the politicians or only to the male half of our world.
GLORIA STEINEM -
There is a naive belief that injustice only had to be pointed out in order to be cured.
GLORIA STEINEM -
when pain has been intertwined with love and closeness, it’s very difficult to believe that love and closeness can be experienced without pain.
GLORIA STEINEM -
Helping begins with listening.
GLORIA STEINEM -
imagining anything is the first step toward creating it. Believing in a true self is what allows a true self to be born.
GLORIA STEINEM -
Dreaming, after all, is a form of planning.
GLORIA STEINEM -
Battered 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 -
But somewhere within each of us, buried at varying depths depending on the age and degree of neglect or abuse, shame or coercion we endured, there is a resistant, daydreaming, rebellious, creative, unique child — a true self who is waiting.
GLORIA STEINEM -
It’s not that women are less corruptible than men are, it’s that women have had less chance to become corrupt.
GLORIA STEINEM -
At my graduation, I thought we had to marry what we wished to become. Now you are becoming the men you once would have wished to marry.
GLORIA STEINEM -
Marriage works best for men than women. The two happiest groups are married men and unmarried women.
GLORIA STEINEM -
I have me brave women who are exploring the outer edge of human possibility, with no history to guide them, and with a courage to make themselves vulnerable that I find moving beyond words.
GLORIA STEINEM -
Hope is a very unruly emotion.
GLORIA STEINEM -
If you really want to be lonely, get married.
GLORIA STEINEM -
In every century, there are a handful of writers who help the human race to evolve. Andrea is one of them.
GLORIA STEINEM