It used to be said that this country was a child-centered one. Nothing could be further from the truth. Children have been our lowest priority, both in economic and emotional spending.
Gloria SteinemYou can hardly open a newspaper without seeing that a woman has been killed by a man for clearly gender-related reasons.
Gloria SteinemPower in this country is often like hemophilia; it passes through women and then men get it.
Gloria SteinemI think we spend a lot of time denying our mothers. We understand other women earlier than we understand our mothers because we're trying so hard to say, "I'm not going to be like my mother" that we blame her for her condition. If we didn't blame her for her condition, we would have to admit that it could happen to us, too. I spent a long time doing that, thinking that my mother's problems were uniquely her fault.
Gloria Steinem