02c. 1934 ADThe Miss America Pageant reinforces a belief that women are merely how they look and how they please.Gloria Steinem / quote ↗
03c. 1934 ADIf 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 few days, women behave the most like the way men behave all month long?Gloria Steinem / quote ↗
04c. 1934 ADIf women have young children, they are one man away from welfare.Gloria Steinem / quote ↗
05c. 1934 ADI'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 / quote ↗
06c. 1934 ADWhat has the women's movement learned from Geraldine Ferraro's candidacy for vice president? Never get married.Gloria Steinem / quote ↗
07c. 1934 ADMost women's magazines simply try to mold women into bigger and better consumers.Gloria Steinem / quote ↗
08c. 1934 ADI think Hefner himself wants to go down in history as a person of sophistication and glamour. But the last person I would want to go down in history as is Hugh Hefner.Gloria Steinem / quote ↗
09c. 1934 ADPower can be taken, but not given. The process of the taking is empowerment in itself.Gloria Steinem / quote ↗
10c. 1934 ADMen should think twice before making widow hood woman's only path to power.Gloria Steinem / quote ↗
11c. 1934 ADGod may be in the details, but the goddess is in the questions. Once we begin to ask them, there's no turning back.Gloria Steinem / quote ↗
12c. 1934 ADClearly no one knows what leadership has gone undiscovered in women of all races, and in black and other minority men.Gloria Steinem / quote ↗
13c. 1934 ADWe've begun to raise daughters more like sons... but few have the courage to raise our sons more like our daughters.Gloria Steinem / quote ↗
14c. 1934 ADMama grizzlies mate later than other bears. They have two cubs instead of four. They wait four years - about twice as long as other bears - between having cubs. And after they're pregnant, if winter is hard or their health is not good or the food supply is uncertain, they re-absorb the embryo into their body.Gloria Steinem / quote ↗
15c. 1934 ADA liberated woman is one who has sex before marriage and a job after.Gloria Steinem / quote ↗
16c. 1934 ADI was never against marriage per se. Before feminism, I didn't think you had any choice. In fact, for a long time I always assumed I would get married. I just didn't see any marriages I wanted to emulate, so I kept putting it off.Gloria Steinem / quote ↗
18c. 1934 ADThe first resistance to social change is to say it's not necessary.Gloria Steinem / quote ↗
19c. 1934 ADIf technology and medicine are used by women to have children or not to have children or to have healthier children - that's one thing. But if it's used to say, 'You're not a real woman unless you have a child; therefore, take all these dangerous hormones and have one at 54,' then it's another story.Gloria Steinem / quote ↗
20c. 1934 ADIt is more rewarding to watch money change the world than watch it accumulate.Gloria Steinem / quote ↗
21c. 1934 ADI'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 / quote ↗
22c. 1934 ADAnger is energising. The opposite of anger is depression, which is anger turned inward.Gloria Steinem / quote ↗
