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Gloria Steinem Quotes about Children

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It's the biggest economic influence in a woman's life whether she can decide when and whether to have children or not.

It's the biggest economic influence in a woman's life whether she can decide when and whether to have children or not.

Children, Influence, Economic

Big Think Interview, bigthink.com.

What would happen if we listened to children as much as we talked to them?

Children, Happens, Ifs

The U.S. has more guns per capita and supplies more guns to the world than any other country. What would be a fistfight without guns turns into dead bodies with them. Families with guns in the house are more likely to shoot themselves accidentally than to shoot any intruder. Women abused by their partners have a five-fold increased risk of being killed when their partner owns a gun. Every three hours, at least one child is wounded or killed by gunfire.

Country, Children, Gun

By the year 2000 we will, I hope, raise our children to believe in human potential, not God.

Children, Believe, Years

I'm completely happy not having children. I mean, everybody does not have to live in the same way. And as somebody said, "Everybody with a womb doesn't have to have a child any more than everybody with vocal cords has to be an opera singer."

Children, Mean, Way

"Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

But somewhere within each of us, buried at varying depths depending on the age and degree of neglect or abuse, shame or coercion we endured, there is a resistant, daydreaming, rebellious, creative, unique child -- a true self who is waiting.

Children, Unique, Self

Gloria Steinem (2012). “Revolution from Within: A Book of Self-Esteem”, p.98, Open Road Media

We are still in various kinds of patriarchal systems. The very definition of patriarchy is that men control women as the means of reproduction, so the idea that a woman's main role is to have children often means society wants more workers, more soldiers. The idea that how many children we have should be controlled by the family, the church, the nation - by anyone but women themselves - is still very deep and very strong.

Strong, Children, Mean

Interview with Maria Shriver, www.interviewmagazine.com. July 11, 2011.

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.

Children, Women, Careers

Gloria Steinem (2017). “Passion, Politics, and Everyday Activism: Collected Essays: Moving Beyond Words; Outrageous Acts and Everyday Rebellions; and Revolution from Within”, p.887, Open Road Media

Most American children suffer too much mother and too little father.

Mother, Children, Father

"A New Egalitarian Life Style". www.nytimes.com. August 26, 1971.

Housewives are dependent creatures who are still children…parasites.

Children, Parasites, Housewife

We've learned that women can and should do 'men's jobs,' for instance, and we've won the principle (if not the fact) of getting equal pay. But we haven't yet established the principle (much less the fact) that men can and should do 'women's jobs': that homemaking and child-rearing are as much a man's responsibility, too, and that those jobs in which women are concentrated outside the home would probably be better paid if more men became secretaries, file clerks, and nurses, too.

Jobs, Children, Home

More and more men are raising children or want to be close to their kids. They don't want to just lead work-obsessed lives and end up 50 years later with an engraved watch.

Children, Kids, Men

Source: www.huffingtonpost.com

Allowing women the power to decide when and whether to have children is the only way to solve the 7 billion human load on this planet that threatens to destroy it. Women's equality is also men's survival.

Children, Men, Survival

Source: www.huffingtonpost.com

You can't do it all. No one can have two full-time jobs, have perfect children and cook three meals and be multi-orgasmic 'til dawn ... Superwoman is the adversary of the women's movement.

Jobs, Children, Two

If 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.

Children, Real, Technology

It's a fundamental human right to decide to have children or not to have children.

Children, Fundamentals, Humans

Interview with Max Miller, bigthink.com. October 28, 2010.

It used to be said that this country was a child-centered one. Nothing could be further from the truth. Children have been our lowest priority, both in economic and emotional spending.

Country, Children, Emotional

You're afraid to be close to women. Because it's not masculine to be close to women. The last time you were close to a woman, you were a child.

Children, Lasts, Masculine

Source: www.pbs.org

If men started taking care of children, the job will become more valuable.

Jobs, Children, Men

I no longer believe the conservative message that children are naturally selfish and destructive creatures who need civilizing by hierarchies or painful controls. On the contrary, I believe that hierarchy and painful controls create destructive people. And I no longer believe the liberal message that children are blank slates on which society can write anything. On the contrary, I believe a unique core self is born into every human being; the result of millennia of environment and heredity combined in an unpredictable way that could never happen before or again.

Family, Children, Selfish

I'm not saying that all women are blameless - all women are not. There are women with despicable characters who are cruel and terrible and some of them are mothers. But why do we blame our mothers more than our fathers? We let our fathers get away scot-free. We hardly even knew who they were in many cases, given the way this culture raises kids, and they may have been quite cruel. They may even have raped us as children, but even if they raped us, we will blame our mothers for not protecting us instead of blaming our fathers who actually did it.

Mother, Children, Father

Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

The deepest change begins with men raising children as much as women do and women being equal actors in the world outside the home.

Children, Home, Men

Source: www.huffingtonpost.com

The father who raises a son to have a profession he once dreamed of, and the mother who uses her daughter as the adult companion her husband is not; the parents who urge their children into accomplishments as status symbols-all these and many more are ways of subordinating a child's authentic self to a parent s needs.

Daughter, Mother, Children

Gloria Steinem (2012). “Revolution from Within: A Book of Self-Esteem”, p.86, Open Road Media

I once fell in love with a man only because we both belonged to that large and secret club of children who had "crazy mothers." We traded stories of the shameless houses to which we could never invite our friends.

Mother, Children, Crazy

Now, we've made the revolutionary discovery that children have two parents. A decade ago even the kindly Dr. Spock held mothers solely responsible for children.

Mother, Children, Two

Gloria Steinem (1986). “Outrageous acts and everyday rebellions”, New Amer Library

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