The problem for all women is we’re identified by how we look instead of by our heads and our hearts. Gloria Steinem Read Quote
How could you not love Norman Mailer? He was a total chauvinist, but also so vulnerable. Gloria Steinem Read Quote
Women are more than smart enough to see that McCain’s policies are a disaster… He is anti- every reproductive issue we’ve ever fought for. Gloria Steinem Read Quote
We are still behaving as if a worker really doesn’t have a family because the work pattern really was meant for men who really were the financial support but weren’t looking after their families. We need to change this, and we can easily do that. Gloria Steinem Read Quote
A parking lot attendant who’s a guy makes a lot more money than a child-care attendant who’s a woman. Gloria Steinem Read Quote
Rich cultures, patriarchal cultures, value thin women, like ours; poor ones value fat women. But all patriarchal cultures value weak women. So for women to become physically strong is very profound. Gloria Steinem Read Quote
Women tend to need the healthcare system more because we bear children. Insurance companies – not all of them, but many of them – ‘gender-rate.’ Women may pay 40% more for their health insurance than men do. Gloria Steinem Read Quote
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. Gloria Steinem Read Quote
When I’m talking to groups that are all men, we talk about how the masculine role limits them. They often want to talk about how they missed having real fathers, real loving, present fathers, because of the way that they tried to fit the picture of masculinity. Gloria Steinem Read Quote
