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Danh ngôn của Gloria Steinem (Sứ mệnh: 3)

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.
Some of us are becoming the men we wanted to marry.
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.
Without leaps of imagination, or dreaming, we lose the excitement of possibilities. Dreaming, after all, is a form of planning.
It is more rewarding to watch money change the world than watch it accumulate.
I have yet to hear a man ask for advice on how to combine marriage and a career.
A pedestal is as much a prison as any small, confined space.
Power can be taken, but not given. The process of the taking is empowerment in itself.
It's an incredible con job when you think about it, to believe something now in exchange for something after death. Even corporations with their reward systems don't try to make it posthumous.
We'll never solve the feminization of power until we solve the masculinity of wealth.
Hope is a very unruly emotion.
Happy or unhappy, families are all mysterious. We have only to imagine how differently we would be described - and will be, after our deaths - by each of the family members who believe they know us.
A liberated woman is one who has sex before marriage and a job after.
We've begun to raise daughters more like sons... but few have the courage to raise our sons more like our daughters.
The first resistance to social change is to say it's not necessary.
The first problem for all of us, men and women, is not to learn, but to unlearn.
Clearly no one knows what leadership has gone undiscovered in women of all races, and in black and other minority men.
If the shoe doesn't fit, must we change the foot?
Most American children suffer too much mother and too little father.
God may be in the details, but the goddess is in the questions. Once we begin to ask them, there's no turning back.
Childbirth is more admirable than conquest, more amazing than self-defense, and as courageous as either one.
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.
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.
The future depends entirely on what each of us does every day; a movement is only people moving.
You can compel fear. You can even make someone feel they're in love if they're isolated and dependent for long enough. But laughter is free.
Anything can be used for or against the welfare of women - or the welfare of anyone - depending on who controls it.
All women, and men of color - we were owned like tables and chairs. We spent a hundred years getting a legal identity as human beings. That's a big thing.
Part of the reason that women go to college is to get out of the food service, clerical, pink-collar ghetto and into a more white-collar job. That does not necessarily mean they are being paid more than the blue-collar jobs men have.
Pop culture shapes our ideas of what is normal and what our dreams can be and what our roles are. Politics, of course, decides how the power and the money in the country is distributed. Both are equally important, and each affects the other.
I hate to generalize, but in general, both men and women suffer from ageism. Men much less because men gain power as they get older. Women lose power as they get older. Men are seen as gaining experience and being distinguished. Sons look forward to replacing their fathers.
The Native American cultures on this continent, most of them, were matrilineal, and some women were the chiefs. Societies were about balance.
I 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.
Perfect is boring: Beauty is irregular.
The same way that racism is a white person's problem, violence against women is a men's problem.
The surest way to be alone is to get married.
I hope to live to 100. There is so much to do.
Feminism has never been about getting a job for one woman. It's about making life more fair for women everywhere. It's not about a piece of the existing pie; there are too many of us for that. It's about baking a new pie.
Obviously, there is much similarity among the challenges of transgender people and all women - from health care to harassment to discrimination in the workplace.
A gender-equal society would be one where the word 'gender' does not exist: where everyone can be themselves.
Anger is energising. The opposite of anger is depression, which is anger turned inward.
Nothing changes the gender equation more significantly than women's economic freedom.
The Miss America Pageant reinforces a belief that women are merely how they look and how they please.