steinem Quotes

“We've begun to raise daughters more like sons... but few have the courage to raise our sons more like our daughters.”

“Without leaps of imagination, or dreaming, we lose the excitement of possibilities. Dreaming, after all, is a form of planning.”

“For much of the female half of the world, food is the first signal of our inferiority. It lets us know that our own families may consider female bodies to be less deserving, less needy, less valuable.”

“If the shoe doesn't fit, must we change the foot?”

“The first problem for all of us, men and women, is not to learn, but to unlearn.”

“It is more rewarding to watch money change the world than watch it accumulate.”

“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 few days, women behave the most like the way men behave all month long?”

“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.”

“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.”

“Clearly no one knows what leadership has gone undiscovered in women of all races, and in black and other minority men.”