Gloria Steinem Quotes

All the really pretty girls get pregnant.

The reality is sobering: in the United States one in three girls will become pregnant before age 20, totaling more than 750,000 girls per year.

The United States has made remarkable progress in reducing both teen pregnancy and racial and ethnic differences, but the reality is, too many American teens are still having babies.

If adolescent pregnancy prevention is to become a priority, then our strategy, as advocates, must contain two key elements: civic engagement and education.

Sex education is legitimate in that girls cannot be taught soon enough how children don't come into the world.

When I was a boy if a girl got pregnant the shame was placed on her and the boy could get away.

Sex education has to do with what's in people's head.

Teen pregnancy went way down in the '90s, and 75 percent of it was because of increased use of contraception.

Most people, almost everyone knows of a teen mom. Teen pregnancy rates are growing, and we need to bring awareness to that.

Americans are a decade behind Canada when it comes to sex education and understanding their bodies.

I can’t pass any legislation that will stop children from having children. Education must do that.

There is something mindboggling about telling a girl that she’s old enough to be pregnant but not old enough to use birth control.

No parent wants their child to get an infection or get pregnant before they're ready.

So we want to free the women of America? You know what would free the women of America? Make men accept responsibility for birth control.

I think imparting sex education to children is important.

The national policy of promoting abstinence-only programs is a $1.5 billion failure and teenage girls are paying the real price.

Given a choice between hearing my daughter say "I'm pregnant" or "I used a condom", most mothers would get up in the middle of the night and buy them herself.

My mother put me on birth control as soon as I told her I wanted to go on it. I was 16. I was very young.

I went to Catholic school and they basically just said don't have sex, but would never explain anything.

I was proud to share the stories of my friends at Georgetown Law who have suffered dire medical consequences because our student insurance does not cover contraception for the purpose of preventing pregnancy.

In my day we didn't have sex education, we just picked up what we could off the television.

35 percent of U. S. births in the last 5 years were the result of unintended pregnancies …. That’s no surprise given recent efforts to reduce access to birth control, sex education, and abortion in this country.

We all want abstinence. And if I knew how to get abstinence I would do whatever it takes to do that ... Given a choice between hearing my daughter say I'm pregnant or I used a condom, most mothers would get up in the middle of the night and buy them herself.

A woman should pay the price for unplanned pregnancy. When the woman lays with a man, she has made her choice. Sexual intercourse isn't all fun and games.

Activists for retrograde social policy live in a world where if you don’t tell teenagers about contraception, they won’t have sex. But that world is not reality, and that fantastical view of human behavior should not dictate sex education policy in ... public schools. Yet it does.