Gloria Steinem Quotes

My mother is a ball of fire in the world, and I love that about her. But what I have learned from my stepdad is something as important, which is patience and compassion. Because when you are living with someone else, those two qualities go a long way.

Wherever the citizen becomes indifferent to his fellows, so will the husband be to his wife, and the father of a family toward the members of his household.

Women are, in my view, natural peacemakers. As givers and nurturers of life, through their focus on human relationships and their engagement with the demanding work of raising children and protecting family life, they develop a deep sense of empathy that cuts through to underlying human realities.

You come from a happy family; you want to create a happy family.

Until we have created a romance of peace that would equal that of war, violence will not disappear from people's lives.

We spend our lives trying to get along with people so we can keep our jobs, keep our marriages together, so that we can raise our kids properly.

I never remember my parents having an argument.

Physical violence was never an option for men or women in my family.

I believe that communication is the key to a happy and successful family in our society.

Family things are always tough, and they're always tough to address, let alone on a TV show.

You need to be able to sit down and talk to your children.

It's always easier to dismiss other people than to go through the awkward and time consuming process of understanding them.

Truth and love will overcome lies and hatred.

It's hard to come up with a 'quote' about myself. Perhaps I could say that most of my writing has been concerned with understanding between people. Whether of different races, or religions, or even in the same family I tried in my books... to deal with the subject of understanding the other fellow.

Ultimately, being open and respectful towards each other is much more powerful as a way to diffuse hatred and anger than, you know, layering on, you know, big walls and oppressive policies.

Character, not passion keeps marriages together long enough to do their work of raising children into mature, responsible, productive citizens.

We need now to build a culture of genuine nonviolence and real democracy.

The hope for the twentieth century rests on recognition that war and depression are man-made, and needless. They can be avoided in the future by turning from the nineteenth-century characteristics just mentioned (materialism, selfishness, false values, hypocrisy, and secret vices) and going back to other characteristics that our Western Society has always regarded as virtues: generosity, compassion, cooperation, rationality, and foresight, and finding a increased role in human life for love, spirituality, charity, and self discipline.

Every relationship you have, you're learning and growing and taking something from that.

I think the greatest challenge between child and parent is communication.

Relationships can go wrong very simply, very quickly, and when you have children you become more aware of relationships around you.

There's no road map on how to raise a family: it's always an enormous negotiation.

I must believe that in words we will find what in fury we cannot.

I try to listen to my children. I try to change with my children.

Moms and daughters can negotiate over anything, and they can go on longer than it took to settle the Vietnam War.