Get QuoteDark Inspirational Quotes App

" If you're going to have a male-dominant system, to maintain the system, you have to teach men to dominate. "

Related Quotes:

" I'm a freelance person, and I've always been able to support myself. "

" Unless we include a job as part of every citizen's right to autonomy and personal fulfillment, women will continue to be vulnerable to someone else's idea of what need is. "

" I will no longer be referred to as Miss Steinem of Ms. magazine. "

" I'm not saying that women leaders would eliminate violence. We are not more moral than men; we are only uncorrupted by power so far. When we do acquire power, we might turn out to have an equal impulse toward aggression. "

" If I read the word 'problematize' one more time, I'm going to vomit. "

" I want to help correct the inaccurate image of immigration in the media. There is an idea that women's issues are over here and immigration is over there. Three quarters of undocumented workers are women and children. "

" I can say whatever it is that I feel. "

" The danger of the Internet is cocooning with the like-minded online - of sending an email or Twitter and confusing that with action - while the real corporate and military and government centers of power go right on. "

" As long as working women also have to do the work of child and family care at home, they will have two jobs instead of one. Perhaps more important, children will grow up thinking that only women can be loving and nurturing, and men cannot. "

" A bad facelift is like a bad toupee. "

" We're never going to have democratic countries or peaceful countries until we have democratic or peaceful families. "

" The Republican Party supported the Equal Rights Amendment before the Democratic Party did. But what happened was that a lot of very right-wing Democrats, after the civil rights bill of 1964, left the Democratic Party and gradually have taken over the Republican Party. "

" In a general way, anything that affects men is taken more seriously than anything that affects only women. "

" When I had a fellowship at the Smithsonian, I asked for a couch in the office because I liked to lie down and take a break. "

" There's no shortage of great young activists. "

" Do women compete for the favours of men? Yes. They've spent 5,000 years competing. "

" 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. "

" In Sweden, both parents take care of the children. "

" America is an enormous frosted cupcake in the middle of millions of starving people. "

" It's easier to blame the person with less power. "

" We must begin to shift the emphasis of teen-age pregnancy to teen-age boys. "

" The error that we tend to make is that we think that women's magazines are what editors want and what their readers want - and thus are social indicators - when, in fact, they are what advertisers want. They're just advertising indicators. "

" Some of us are becoming the men we wanted to marry. "

" 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. "

" I'm lucky I don't make my living in front of the camera. "

" Men are victims of their own impulses. "

" How could you not love Norman Mailer? He was a total chauvinist, but also so vulnerable. "

" 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. "

" I hope to live to 100. There is so much to do. "

" Obviously there is no such thing as race, and in many ways, sex is a continuum, not a binary. So it doesn't make sense to label people in that way. "