I 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 SteinemClearly no one knows what leadership has gone undiscovered in women of all races, and in black and other minority men.
Gloria SteinemI think if we could raise one generation of kids without violence and shaming, we don't know what might be possible.
Gloria SteinemPatriarchy requires violence or the subliminal threat of violence in order to maintain itself... The most dangerous situation for a woman is not an unknown man in the street, or even the enemy in wartime, but a husband or lover in the isolation of their home.
Gloria SteinemWe'll never solve the feminization of power until we solve the masculinity of wealth.
Gloria Steinem