There is bias and sexism everywhere, just like there are problems of racism and homophobia stemming from the whole notion that we're arranged in a hierarchy, that we're ranked rather than linked.
Gloria SteinemMy father was the Jewish half of the family, yet it was my mother who taught me to have pride in that tradition.
Gloria SteinemWriters - we're a little crazy about how much we care about it. We spend a lot of time fussing. At least, I do.
Gloria SteinemWe've learned that women can and should do 'men's jobs,' for instance, and we've won the principle (if not the fact) of getting equal pay. But we haven't yet established the principle (much less the fact) that men can and should do 'women's jobs': that homemaking and child-rearing are as much a man's responsibility, too, and that those jobs in which women are concentrated outside the home would probably be better paid if more men became secretaries, file clerks, and nurses, too.
Gloria Steinem