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.
More Quotes from Gloria Steinem:
Logic is in the eye of the logician.Gloria Steinem
Happy or unhappy, families are all mysterious. We have only to imagine how differently we would be described - and will be, after our deaths - by each of the family members who believe they know us.
Gloria Steinem
The family is the basic cell of government it is where we are trained to believe that we are human beings or that we are chattel, it is where we are trained to see the sex and race divisions and become callous to injustice even if it is done to ourselves, to accept as biological a full system of authoritarian government.
Gloria Steinem
Some of us are becoming the men we wanted to marry.
Gloria Steinem
A woman without a man is like a fish without a bicycle.
Gloria Steinem
Self-esteem is the basis of any democracy.
Gloria Steinem
Readers Who Like This Quotation Also Like:
Based on Topics: Family Quotes, Food Quotes, World QuotesBased on Keywords: deserving, needy
I started by hacking around the back yard in Richmond.
Jennifer Wyatt
Fishing, with me, has always been an excuse to drink in the daytime.
Jimmy Cannon
I have come to the conclusion that the major part of the work of a President is to increase the gate receipts of expositions and fairs and bring tourists to town.
William Howard Taft