No one can give us power. If we arenโt part of the process of taking it, we wonโt be strong enough to use it.
Gloria SteinemThere's one logical generational difference and that is that young women will have more chances to support a female president than older women. Older women feel it's their last chance, so that's just a factual, obvious difference. But other than that it depends on experience, on individual experience.
Gloria SteinemI think if we could raise one generation of kids without violence and shaming, we don't know what might be possible.
Gloria SteinemOne of our biggest problems in terms of effectiveness is that we have hopes, but our opposition has interests. We measure everything against our hopes, including politicians that we are voting for or choosing amongst. We don't measure up to our hopes ourselves. How can we expect anybody else to?
Gloria Steinem