We all have good instincts unless they're beaten out of us or shamed out of us in childhood.
Gloria SteinemHappy or unhappy, families are all mysterious. We have only to imagine how differently we would be described - and will be, after our deaths - by each of the family members who believe they know us.
Gloria SteinemIt doesn't matter where we begin the personal/political circle, but it matters desperately that we complete it.
Gloria SteinemA lot of the people who are supposed to be enforcing the crime, enforcing the law, are also criminals. They've suppressed something in their childhood and they don't want to think they themselves were sexually abused as children or they are abusing their own children and they're sitting on a bench and they either can't admit it, won't admit it, depending on how deeply buried it is.
Gloria Steinem