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

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• 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.

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• 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

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• 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

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• 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.

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

  Gloria Steinem

  Children, Parasites, Housewife

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• 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.

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  Children, Unique, Self

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

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• 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.

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  Children, Kids, Men

  Source: www.huffingtonpost.com

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• 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

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• 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.

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• 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

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• 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.

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• 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.

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  Children, Men, Circles

  Source: www.huffingtonpost.com

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• 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

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• 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.

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• [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.

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  Children, Female, Reason

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• 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

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

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  Children, Influence, Economic

  Big Think Interview, bigthink.com.

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

  Gloria Steinem

  Jobs, Children, Men

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• 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.

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  Children, Men, Survival

  Source: www.huffingtonpost.com

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• 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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• 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.

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  Daughter, Mother, Children

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

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• 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.

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  Country, Children, Emotional

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• 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

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• 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

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