We’ve begun to raise daughters more like sons… but few have the courage to raise our sons more like our daughters.
GLORIA STEINEMA lot of my generation are living out the un-lived lives of our mothers.
More Gloria Steinem Quotes
-
-
Hope is a very unruly emotion.
GLORIA STEINEM -
Life 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 STEINEM -
If men menstruated, they would brag about how much and for how long.
GLORIA STEINEM -
The story of women’s struggle for equality belongs to no single feminist nor to any one organization but to the collective efforts of all who care about human rights
GLORIA STEINEM -
There are many ways of supporting gender equality, from something as simple as paid sick leave and flexible work hours to attributing an economic value to all care-giving, and making that amount tax deductible.
GLORIA STEINEM -
Being married is like having somebody permanently in your corner. It feels limitless, not limited.
GLORIA STEINEM -
I believe that transgender people, including those who have transitioned, are living out real, authentic lives. Those lives should be celebrated, not questioned. Their health care decisions should be theirs and theirs alone to make.
GLORIA STEINEM -
Feminism has never been about getting a job for one woman. It’s about making life more fair for women everywhere. It’s not about a piece of the existing pie; there are too many of us for that. It’s about baking a new pie.
GLORIA STEINEM -
Clinging to the past is the problem. Embracing change is the answer.
GLORIA STEINEM -
Women may be the one group that grows more radical with age.
GLORIA STEINEM -
Some of us are becoming the men we wanted to marry.
GLORIA STEINEM -
Women tend to be conservative in youth and get more radical as they get older because they lose power with age. So, if a young woman is not a feminist, I say, just wait.
GLORIA STEINEM -
The authority of any governing institution must stop at its citizen’s skin.
GLORIA STEINEM -
So why is the sex barrier not taken as seriously as the racial one?
GLORIA STEINEM -
Writing keeps me from believing everything I read.
GLORIA STEINEM