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.

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

  Gloria Steinem

  Children, Parasites, Housewife

• 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.

• 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

• 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

• 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.

• 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

• 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

• The women's movement and gay and lesbian movements always come together, and our adversaries are always the same because the male supremacist, patriarchal, ultra-right-wing, religious fundamentalists, whatever you want to call it is devoted to saying that sex is only moral and okay when it is directed towards having children and occurs in patriarchal marriage, so the children are owned.

  Gloria Steinem

  Religious, Sex, Children

  Source: bigthink.com

• The U.S. has more guns per capita and supplies more guns to the world than any other country. What would be a fistfight without guns turns into dead bodies with them. Families with guns in the house are more likely to shoot themselves accidentally than to shoot any intruder. Women abused by their partners have a five-fold increased risk of being killed when their partner owns a gun. Every three hours, at least one child is wounded or killed by gunfire.

  Gloria Steinem

  Country, Children, Gun

• We are still in various kinds of patriarchal systems. The very definition of patriarchy is that men control women as the means of reproduction, so the idea that a woman's main role is to have children often means society wants more workers, more soldiers. The idea that how many children we have should be controlled by the family, the church, the nation - by anyone but women themselves - is still very deep and very strong.

  Gloria Steinem

  Strong, Children, Mean

  Interview with Maria Shriver, www.interviewmagazine.com. July 11, 2011.

• Children who have been very sadistically abused over the long-term are able to dissociate, some of them are able to dissociate as a way of surviving and inventing someone to whom this doesn't happen. And so therefore, they invent within themselves different personalities who have life histories of their own. Many people invent an opposite gender personality as well.

  Gloria Steinem

  Children, Opposites, Long

  Source: www.pbs.org

• Sexuality has always been for humans a form of communication, a way we express love and caring and bonding, not only a way we have children if we choose to.

  Gloria Steinem

  Children, Communication, Caring

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

• You can't do it all. No one can have two full-time jobs, have perfect children and cook three meals and be multi-orgasmic 'til dawn ... Superwoman is the adversary of the women's movement.

  Gloria Steinem

  Jobs, Children, Two

• When I was growing up, you were supposed to marry and therefore didn't plan ahead. Planning ahead is one of the few reliable measures of class in the sense that rich people plan for generations forward and poor people plan for Saturday night, and by that measure, women have been lower class. We were less likely to plan ahead because we're more likely to think that who we marry and our children are going to dictate our plans.

  Gloria Steinem

  Growing Up, Children, Night

  Interview with Maria Shriver, www.interviewmagazine.com. July 11, 2011.

• They're all qualities wrongly called feminine: attention to detail, patience, empathy. I don't have children, but I was raised as a female to have those qualities because they're perceived as feminine. Until men are raised with those qualities, too, they won't have the full circle of human qualities.

  Gloria Steinem

  Children, Men, Circles

  Source: www.huffingtonpost.com

• 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

• 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

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