Gloria Steinem Quotes About Children

Quotes about: Children

• By the year 2000 we will, I hope, raise our children to believe in human potential, not God.

  Gloria Steinem

  Children, Believe, Years

• Most American children suffer too much mother and too little father.

  Gloria Steinem

  Mother, Children, Father

  "A New Egalitarian Life Style". www.nytimes.com. August 26, 1971.

• The deepest change begins with men raising children as much as women do and women being equal actors in the world outside the home.

  Gloria Steinem

  Children, Home, Men

  Source: www.huffingtonpost.com

• 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.

  Gloria Steinem

  Children, Women, Careers

  Gloria Steinem (2017). “Passion, Politics, and Everyday Activism: Collected Essays: Moving Beyond Words; Outrageous Acts and Everyday Rebellions; and Revolution from Within”, p.887, Open Road Media

• I'm completely happy not having children. I mean, everybody does not have to live in the same way. And as somebody said, "Everybody with a womb doesn't have to have a child any more than everybody with vocal cords has to be an opera singer."

  Gloria Steinem

  Children, Mean, Way

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

• Housewives are dependent creatures who are still children…parasites.

  Gloria Steinem

  Children, Parasites, Housewife

• More and more men are raising children or want to be close to their kids. They don't want to just lead work-obsessed lives and end up 50 years later with an engraved watch.

  Gloria Steinem

  Children, Kids, Men

  Source: www.huffingtonpost.com

• 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

  Children, Unique, Self

  Gloria Steinem (2012). “Revolution from Within: A Book of Self-Esteem”, p.98, Open Road Media

• 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.

  Gloria Steinem

  Children, Black And White, Woods

• I once fell in love with a man only because we both belonged to that large and secret club of children who had "crazy mothers." We traded stories of the shameless houses to which we could never invite our friends.

  Gloria Steinem

  Mother, Children, Crazy

• It's a fundamental human right to decide to have children or not to have children.

  Gloria Steinem

  Children, Fundamentals, Humans

  Interview with Max Miller, bigthink.com. October 28, 2010.

• [On gender-rating by insurance companies:] They say the reason they get to charge more is we have children. I would say having children is a socially useful act. Being female is not a preexisting condition.

  Gloria Steinem

  Children, Female, Reason

• Now, we've made the revolutionary discovery that children have two parents. A decade ago even the kindly Dr. Spock held mothers solely responsible for children.

  Gloria Steinem

  Mother, Children, Two

  Gloria Steinem (1986). “Outrageous acts and everyday rebellions”, New Amer Library

• It's the biggest economic influence in a woman's life whether she can decide when and whether to have children or not.

  Gloria Steinem

  Children, Influence, Economic

  Big Think Interview, bigthink.com.

• If men started taking care of children, the job will become more valuable.

  Gloria Steinem

  Jobs, Children, Men

• Allowing women the power to decide when and whether to have children is the only way to solve the 7 billion human load on this planet that threatens to destroy it. Women's equality is also men's survival.

  Gloria Steinem

  Children, Men, Survival

  Source: www.huffingtonpost.com

• If we have reproductive freedom, that is the ability to decide for ourselves when and whether to have children and what happens to our bodies, sexism can be reversed. It's the understanding that it's not inevitable. I think that is crucial.

  Gloria Steinem

  Children, Thinking, Understanding

  Source: www.washingtontimes.com

• The father who raises a son to have a profession he once dreamed of, and the mother who uses her daughter as the adult companion her husband is not; the parents who urge their children into accomplishments as status symbols-all these and many more are ways of subordinating a child's authentic self to a parent s needs.

  Gloria Steinem

  Daughter, Mother, Children

  Gloria Steinem (2012). “Revolution from Within: A Book of Self-Esteem”, p.86, Open Road Media

• It used to be said that this country was a child-centered one. Nothing could be further from the truth. Children have been our lowest priority, both in economic and emotional spending.

  Gloria Steinem

  Country, Children, Emotional

• We will live to see the day that St. Patrick's Cathedral is a child-care center and the pope is no longer a disgrace to the skirt that he has on.

  Gloria Steinem

  Children, Care, Skirts

• You're afraid to be close to women. Because it's not masculine to be close to women. The last time you were close to a woman, you were a child.

  Gloria Steinem

  Children, Lasts, Masculine

  Source: www.pbs.org

• I'm not saying that all women are blameless - all women are not. There are women with despicable characters who are cruel and terrible and some of them are mothers. But why do we blame our mothers more than our fathers? We let our fathers get away scot-free. We hardly even knew who they were in many cases, given the way this culture raises kids, and they may have been quite cruel. They may even have raped us as children, but even if they raped us, we will blame our mothers for not protecting us instead of blaming our fathers who actually did it.

  Gloria Steinem

  Mother, Children, Father

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

• Our children are the only people on whom we can safely take revenge for what was done to us.

  Gloria Steinem

  Revenge, Children, People

  Gloria Steinem (2012). “Revolution from Within: A Book of Self-Esteem”, p.99, Open Road Media

• I no longer believe the conservative message that children are naturally selfish and destructive creatures who need civilizing by hierarchies or painful controls. On the contrary, I believe that hierarchy and painful controls create destructive people. And I no longer believe the liberal message that children are blank slates on which society can write anything. On the contrary, I 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 Steinem

  Family, Children, Selfish

• When you stand up for yourself and try to be autonomous and self-determining, you're called a lot of names that we all know and that are very common. You may lose your job. You may lose custody of your child. You may be blamed for the failure of your marriage even though it was the man who couldn't tolerate an equal relationship.

  Gloria Steinem

  Jobs, Children, Men

  Source: www.pbs.org

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