Gloria Steinem

Children are short people. Some you like, some you don't. ”

There is nothing more fundamental than the idea that the government does not have a right to decide when and whether we have children. ”

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

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

The deepest change begins with men raising children as much as women do and women being equal actors in the world outside the home. There are many ways of supporting that, from something as simple as paid sick leave and flexible work hours to attributing an economic value to all caregiving and making that amount tax deductible. ”

If women have young children, they are one man away from welfare. ”

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

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. ”

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. ”

The Miss America Pageant reinforces a belief that women are merely how they look and how they please. ”