What we experience in our childhoods that comes to seem normal, or even inevitable, is that if you are placed in a hierarchy, you probably are immediately anxious about going further down and you're striving to go further up, so your energies get placed into becoming "more than," or at least not becoming "less than," instead of becoming "part of."
Gloria SteinemSex and race, because they are easy and visible differences, have been the primary ways of organizing human beings into superior and inferior groups and into the cheap labour on which this system still depends.
Gloria SteinemSexism is not inevitable. It's only about controlling reproduction and therefore controlling women.
Gloria SteinemMy father was the Jewish half of the family, yet it was my mother who taught me to have pride in that tradition.
Gloria Steinem