I know that lack of contact creates more lack of contact, and contact creates more contact, or at least an ability to talk to with each other.
Gloria SteinemFor 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.
Gloria SteinemPower can be taken, but not given. The process of the taking is empowerment in itself.
Gloria SteinemAt my graduation, I thought we had to marry what we wished to become. Now you are becoming the men you once would have wished to marry.
Gloria SteinemClearly no one knows what leadership has gone undiscovered in women of all races, and in black and other minority men.
Gloria SteinemI don't remember being thought of as good-looking until I became a feminist. It's more of a comment on people's expectations than of what a feminist would look like. They assumed that if you could get a man, you wouldn't want anything else - what else could you possibly want? So that feminists who were talking about such things as equal pay must be doing so because they were unable to get a husband to support them, and therefore they must be ugl - this was the sort of train of thought. So because I looked different from the stereotype, then people would comment.
Gloria Steinem