No man can call himself liberal, or radical, or even a conservative advocate of fair play, if his work depends in any way on the unpaid or underpaid labor of women at home, or in the office.
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Gloria Steinem
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About Gloria Steinem
Gloria Marie Steinem was an American journalist and social movement activist who emerged as a nationally recognized leader of second-wave feminism in the United States in the late 1960s and early 1970s, and who remained particularly prominent in the 1980s and early 1990s.
Read on Wikipedia → Find books by Gloria SteinemBecause I have work to care about, it is possible that I may be less difficult to get along with than other women when the double chins start to form.
If women have young children, they are one man away from welfare.
Because I have work to care about, it is possible that I may be less difficult to get along with than other women when the double chins start to form.
Most women's magazines simply try to mold women into bigger and better consumers.
No man can call himself liberal, or radical, or even a conservative advocate of fair play, if his work depends in any way on the unpaid or underpaid labor of women at home, or in the office.
Most women are one man away from welfare.
If women are supposed to be less rational and more emotional at the beginning of our menstrual cycle when the female hormone is at its lowest level, then why isn't it logical to say that, in those fe…
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The first problem for all of us, men and women, is not to learn, but to unlearn.
Some of us are becoming the men we wanted to marry.
Childbirth is more admirable than conquest, more amazing than self-defense, and as courageous as either one.
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.
If you say, I'm for equal pay, that's a reform. But if you say. I'm a feminist, that's a transformation of society.
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.
Men should think twice before making widow hood woman's only path to power.
We'll never solve the feminization of power until we solve the masculinity of wealth.
Power can be taken, but not given. The process of the taking is empowerment in itself.
The first resistance to social change is to say it's not necessary.
Most American children suffer too much mother and too little father.
It is more rewarding to watch money change the world than watch it accumulate.
The first problem for all of us, men and women, is not to learn, but to unlearn.
If women are supposed to be less rational and more emotional at the beginning of our menstrual cycle when the female hormone is at its lowest level, then why isn't it logical to say that, in those fe…
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.
A liberated woman is one who has sex before marriage and a job after.
I have yet to hear a man ask for advice on how to combine marriage and a career.