We've begun to raise daughters more like sons... but few have the courage to raise our sons more like our daughters.
Gloria SteinemOur children are the only people on whom we can safely take revenge for what was done to us.
Gloria SteinemOne of the things I understood from early on was that art was a symbol of systemic inequity.
Gloria SteinemMen may feel just disempowered by intimacy, by being close to a woman, and also by feeling the tender feelings that they're ashamed of.
Gloria SteinemLike art, revolutions come from combining what exists into what has never existed before.
Gloria SteinemInside each of us is a unique person resulting from millennia of environment and heredity combined in a way that could never happen again and could never have happened before. We aren't blank slates, but we are also communal creatures who are born before our brains are fully developed, so we're very sensitive to our environment. The question is: How to find the support and the circumstances that allow you to express what's inside you?
Gloria Steinem