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. Gloria Steinem violence uncorrupted aggression share on social
Having one's traditional role questioned is not a very comfortable experience, perhaps especially for women, who have been able to remain children, and to benefit from work they did not and could not do. Gloria Steinem traditional remain work share on social
I didn't go to school a full year until I was 11 or 12, so I lived in books. I really was an observer of life. Gloria Steinem live book school Change image and share on social
If you hear a statistic, you will make up a story to go with it, because our brains are organized on narrative. And you may very well make up a wrong story because you only have one fact, which is a statistic. Gloria Steinem statistic make hear share on social
A pedestal is as much a prison as any small, confined space. Gloria Steinem small pedestal space Change image and share on social
For much of the female half of the world, food is the first signal of our inferiority. It lets us know that our own families may consider female bodies to be less deserving, less needy, less valuable. Gloria Steinem inferiority female needy Change image and share on social
If you ask men about their body image, they will tell you they look better than they do. And if you ask a woman, she'll tell you she looks worse. Gloria Steinem image body badly Change image and share on social
What we need to be able to do is count all human experience. So I would like to count the secretarial positions as good training places to take over the jobs of the bosses. Gloria Steinem train good human Change image and share on social
We're never going to have democratic countries or peaceful countries until we have democratic or peaceful families. Gloria Steinem peaceful country democratic Change image and share on social
In the suffragist and abolitionist era, there were a lot of white women and some black men and women who argued for the old hierarchy and against universal adult suffrage - often on religious grounds. Gloria Steinem abolitionist suffragist black Change image and share on social
