Gloria Steinem Quotes About Country

Quotes about: Country

• Life after 50 or 60 is itself another country, as different as adolescence is from childhood, or as adulthood is from adolescence - and just as adventurous.

  Gloria Steinem

  Country, Childhood, Different

• Power in this country is often like hemophilia; it passes through women and then men get it.

  Gloria Steinem

  Country, Power, Men

• We all know as we travel around this country or around the world that there are huge problems, and also people doing amazing things on the ground - but those people rarely get reported. Our media are so into conflict that they sometimes say to me, "Bring an 'anti' with you."

  Gloria Steinem

  Country, Media, People

• A man can be called ruthless if he bombs a country to oblivion. A woman can be called ruthless if she puts you on hold.

  Gloria Steinem

  Country, Men, Bombs

• We've demonstrated in modern countries or industrialized countries that women can do what men can do, but we have not demonstrated that men can do what women can do therefore children are still mostly raised, hugely mostly raised by women and women in industrialized modern countries end up having two jobs one outside the home and one inside the home.

  Gloria Steinem

  Country, Jobs, Children

  Source: bigthink.com

• I don't think there's any country that has equal pay, not even Sweden or Iceland.

  Gloria Steinem

  Country, Thinking, Equal Pay

  Source: www.elle.com

• 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.

  Gloria Steinem

  Country, Children, Emotional

• We need to take violence against women seriously. It is the biggest indicator of whether a country is violent inside itself, and whether it will be militarily violent against another country.

  Gloria Steinem

  Country, Needs, Violence

  Source: www.elle.com

• During years of working for a living, I have experienced much of the legal and social discrimination reserved for women in this country, I have been refused service in public restaurants, ordered out of public gathering places and turned away from apartment rentals. All for the clearly stated, sole reason that I am a woman.

  Gloria Steinem

  Country, Years, Gathering

• More than poverty, more than degree of education, religion, access to natural resources, even degree of democracy - violence against females is the biggest indicator of whether a country will be violent in itself or be willing to use military violence against another country.

  Gloria Steinem

  Country, Military, Democracy

  Source: www.washingtontimes.com

• In the last 25 years, we've convinced ourselves and a majority of the country that women can do what men can do. Now we have to convince the majority of the country - and ourselves - that men can do what women can do. ... Let's face it: until men are fully equal inside the home, women will never be really equal outside it.

  Gloria Steinem

  Country, Home, Equality

• 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.

  Gloria Steinem

  Country, Children, Gun

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