If you consider that the gender roles are just political, then what you come to see is that the full circle of human qualities is divided up so that two-thirds are masculine and one-third is feminine. Women are missing more of their human qualities, so you'll find us on the fore-front of trying to change this.
Gloria SteinemOppression has no logic--just a self-fulfilling prophecy, justified by a self-perpetuating system.
Gloria SteinemI think that we need to change the culture, not blame the people that are playing the only game that exists.
Gloria SteinemI once fell in love with a man only because we both belonged to that large and secret club of children who had "crazy mothers." We traded stories of the shameless houses to which we could never invite our friends.
Gloria SteinemNo wonder male religious leaders so often say that humans were born in sinโbecause we were born to female creatures. Only by obeying the rules of the patriarchy can we be reborn through men. No wonder priests and ministers in skirts sprinkle imitation birth fluid over our heads, give us new names, and promise rebirth into everlasting life.
Gloria Steinem