Gloria Steinem

Happy or unhappy, families are all mysterious.

The moment we find the reason behind an emotion...the wall we have built is breached, and the positive memories it has kept from us return too. That's why it pays to ask those painful questions. The answers can set you free.

Each individual woman's body demands to be accepted on its own terms.

Being able to support oneself allows one to choose a marriage out of love and not just economic dependence. It also allows one to risk that marriage.

I've yet to be on a campus where most women weren't worrying about some aspect of combining marriage, children, and a career. I've yet to find one where many men were worrying about the same thing.

In depression you care about nothing. In sadness you care about everything.

Evil is obvious only in retrospect.

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

Most women's magazines simply try to mold women into bigger and better consumers.

Some of us are becoming the men we wanted to marry.

I can't mate in captivity.

A woman without a man is like a fish without a bicycle.

If men menstruated, they would brag about how much and for how long.

Writing is the only thing that, when I do it, I don't feel I should be doing something else.

In my heart, I think a woman has two choices: Either she's a feminist or a masochist.

America is an enormous frosted cupcake in the middle of millions of starving people.

Dreaming, after all, is a form of planning.