Gloria Steinem Quotes About Mothers

Quotes about: Mothers

• 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.

• I don't know if fury can compete with necessity as the mother of invention, but I recommend it.

  Gloria Steinem

  Mother, Anger, Invention

  Gloria Steinem (2012). “Moving Beyond Words: Essays on Age, Rage, Sex, Power, Money, Muscles: Breaking the Boundaries of Gender”, p.9, Open Road Media

• A lot of my generation are living out the un-lived lives of our mothers.

  Gloria Steinem

  Mother, Generations, My Generation

• 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

• In retrospect, perhaps the biggest reason my mother was cared for but not helped for twenty years was the simplest: Her functioning was not that necessary to the world.

  Gloria Steinem

  Mother, Years, Twenties

  Gloria Steinem (2012). “Outrageous Acts and Everyday Rebellions”, p.211, Open Road Media

• 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 once fell in love with a man only because we both belonged to that large and secret club of children who had "crazy mothers." We traded stories of the shameless houses to which we could never invite our friends.

  Gloria Steinem

  Mother, Children, Crazy

• I think we spend a lot of time denying our mothers. We understand other women earlier than we understand our mothers because we're trying so hard to say, "I'm not going to be like my mother" that we blame her for her condition. If we didn't blame her for her condition, we would have to admit that it could happen to us, too. I spent a long time doing that, thinking that my mother's problems were uniquely her fault.

  Gloria Steinem

  Mother, Thinking, Long

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

• Now, we've made the revolutionary discovery that children have two parents. A decade ago even the kindly Dr. Spock held mothers solely responsible for children.

  Gloria Steinem

  Mother, Children, Two

  Gloria Steinem (1986). “Outrageous acts and everyday rebellions”, New Amer Library

• 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

• Mother’s Day really was in its origin an antiwar day, an antiwar statement. Julia Ward Howe was sickened by what had happened during the Civil War, the loss of life, the carnage, and she created Mother’s Day as a call for women all over the world to come together and create ways of protesting war, of making a kind of alternate government that could finally do away with war as an acceptable way of solving conflict.

  Gloria Steinem

  Mother, War, Loss

  "Mother’s Day for Peace: A Dramatic Reading of Julia Ward Howe’s Mother’s Day Proclamation". "Democracy Now!" with Amy Goodman, www.democracynow.org. May 8, 2009.

• Most of us are living out the unlived lives of our mothers, because they were not able to become the unique people they were born to be.

  Gloria Steinem

  Mother, Unique, People

• Like so many women, I was living out the unlived life of my mother, so I wouldn't be her. But the price I paid was that I distanced myself internally. I wasn't as close to her then as I nowadays, in retrospect, wish I had been.

  Gloria Steinem

  Mother, Wish, Retrospect

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

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