Society certainly encourages women to be victims in every way. I mean if we want approval, we have to sing the blues, even as singers we sing the blues.
Gloria SteinemIt's not okay for a woman to be in control of her own body, her own reproductive system, much less of her life. There's opposition even to that. So passivity is rewarded as feminine.
Gloria SteinemParadoxically, only journeying backward in time and reentering the home we once knew allows us to go forward to the home we've always wanted.
Gloria Steinem