The old languages - at least the ones I know - don't have gender. They don't have gendered pronouns. There's no "he" and "she." A human being is a human being.
Gloria SteinemIt is true for me, as for so many countless others, that librarians saved my life, my internal life.
Gloria SteinemThe first problem for all of us, men and woman, is not to learn, but to unlearn. We are filled with the popular wisdom of several centuries just past, and we are terrified to give it up. Patriotism means obedience, age means wisdom, woman means submission, black means inferior: these are preconceptions imbedded so deeply in our thinking that we honestly may not know that they are there.
Gloria Steinem... the art of politics is to be ahead of your time--about six months will do it. Any more than that, and people forget you were there.
Gloria Steinem