I will no longer be referred to as Miss Steinem of Ms. magazine.
From Gloria Steinem
A movement is only composed of people moving. To feel its warmth and motion around us is the end as well as the means.
Planning ahead is a measure of class. The rich and even the middle class plan for future generations, but the poor can plan ahead only a few weeks or days.
Work is valued by the social value of the worker.
Because I have work to care about, it is possible that I may be less difficult to get along with than other women when the double chins start to form.
Unless we include a job as part of every citizen's right to autonomy and personal fulfillment, women will continue to be vulnerable to someone else's idea of what need is.
The origins of violence against women by men are not biological. If that were the case, it would exist in every culture. And it doesn't exist in every culture.
If you're going to have a male-dominant system, to maintain the system, you have to teach men to dominate.
Men may feel just disempowered by intimacy, by being close to a woman, and also by feeling the tender feelings that they're ashamed of.
Society certainly encourages women to be victims in every way.
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