If you look at many of the women who find themselves with cold, distant, difficult, cruel men, it's because they had cold, distant, difficult, cruel fathers who made them feel that there was no alternative or, at a minimum, who made them choose someone like their father in order to change in this other man what they couldn't change in their fathers.
Gloria SteinemThe voting booth is the only place that a pauper equals a billionaire, and any woman equals any man.
Gloria SteinemSelf-esteem starts out as a personal blessing, but it becomes nothing less than an evolutionary force.
Gloria SteinemIt's especially ridiculous to think you have to be successful when you're so young. You should be able to adventure and not worry so much about achievement.
Gloria SteinemChildren who have been very sadistically abused over the long-term are able to dissociate, some of them are able to dissociate as a way of surviving and inventing someone to whom this doesn't happen. And so therefore, they invent within themselves different personalities who have life histories of their own. Many people invent an opposite gender personality as well.
Gloria Steinem