Gloria Steinem Quotes About Fathers

Quotes about: Fathers

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

  Gloria Steinem

  Mother, Children, Father

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

• My father was the Jewish half of the family, yet it was my mother who taught me to have pride in that tradition.

  Gloria Steinem

  Mother, Father, Pride

  Gloria Steinem (2012). “Outrageous Acts and Everyday Rebellions”, p.231, Open Road Media

• If you look at many of the women who find themselves with cold, distant, difficult, cruel men, it's because they had cold, distant, difficult, cruel fathers who made them feel that there was no alternative or, at a minimum, who made them choose someone like their father in order to change in this other man what they couldn't change in their fathers.

  Gloria Steinem

  Father, Men, Order

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

• There are many more women who identify as unique people as well as mothers, or instead of as mothers, than there used to be and, hopefully, there are more men who identify as fathers.

  Gloria Steinem

  Mother, Father, Unique

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

• 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.

  Gloria Steinem

  Mother, Children, Father

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.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.

  Gloria Steinem

  Daughter, Mother, Children

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

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