I would say don't worry about what you should do, do whatever you can. And seek companions with shared values.
Gloria SteinemWomen have always been an equal part of the past. We just havent been a part of history.
Gloria SteinemWhatever the gender of the participants, all pornography including male-male gay pornography is an imitation of the male-female, conqueror-victim paradigm, and almost all of it actually portrays or implies enslaved women and master.
Gloria SteinemIf we're by ourselves we come to feel crazy and alone. We need to make alternate families of small groups of women who support each other, talk to each other regularly, can speak their truths and their experiences and find they're not alone in them, that other women have them, too ... It makes such a huge difference.
Gloria SteinemAt my age, in this still hierarchical time, people often ask me if Iโm โpassing the torch.โ I explain that Iโm keeping my torch, thank you very much-and Iโm using it to light the torches of others.
Gloria SteinemProbably those three things affect the most people: reproductive freedom, freedom from violence, and democratic families. But there may well be someone sitting at this table who has a great idea to do something else that wouldn't come under those umbrellas and that would really be great, and make all kinds of change.
Gloria Steinem