I think that there is clearly an understanding that the women's market is an important market. It's still often perceived as separate when it's not.
Gloria SteinemReporters immediately push their interviewees into the most extreme version by saying in a shocked tone, 'Well, are you saying that ..." They're trying to make people be as hostile and opposed to each other as possible because they think only conflict is news.
Gloria SteinemSexism is not inevitable. It's only about controlling reproduction and therefore controlling women.
Gloria SteinemWhen you say something in a wrong group - it will never be right, so you can not say anything wrong, when you don't belong to a group.
Gloria SteinemI have always employed humor, and I think itโs absolutely crucial that we do because, among other things, humor is the only free emotion. I mean, you can compel fear, as we know. You can compel love, actually, if somebody is isolated and dependent โ itโs like the Stockholm syndrome. But you canโt compel laughter. It happens when two things come together and make a third unexpectedly. It happens when you learn something, too.
Gloria Steinem