Liberation does not come from outside.
From Gloria Steinem
We are still behaving as if a worker really doesn't have a family because the work pattern really was meant for men who really were the financial support but weren't looking after their families. We need to change this, and we can easily do that.
A parking lot attendant who's a guy makes a lot more money than a child-care attendant who's a woman.
Rich cultures, patriarchal cultures, value thin women, like ours; poor ones value fat women. But all patriarchal cultures value weak women. So for women to become physically strong is very profound.
Women tend to need the healthcare system more because we bear children. Insurance companies - not all of them, but many of them - 'gender-rate.' Women may pay 40% more for their health insurance than men do.
Part of the reason that women go to college is to get out of the food service, clerical, pink-collar ghetto and into a more white-collar job. That does not necessarily mean they are being paid more than the blue-collar jobs men have.
I am not patient.
The Native American cultures on this continent, most of them, were matrilineal, and some women were the chiefs. Societies were about balance.
How could you not love Norman Mailer? He was a total chauvinist, but also so vulnerable.
It's heartbreaking to watch people working against themselves.
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