Gloria Steinem Quotes About Sexism

Quotes about: Sexism

• We need to raise our sons more like our daughters. We need to relieve them of this burden of the idea that to be masculine they have to be superior, which is what they get addicted to, and why both racism and sexism are crimes that I call superiority crimes.

  Gloria Steinem

  Daughter, Son, Ideas

  Source: www.elle.com

• Sexism is not inevitable. It's only about controlling reproduction and therefore controlling women.

  Gloria Steinem

  Sexism, Inevitable, Controlling Women

  Source: www.washingtontimes.com

• If we have reproductive freedom, that is the ability to decide for ourselves when and whether to have children and what happens to our bodies, sexism can be reversed. It's the understanding that it's not inevitable. I think that is crucial.

  Gloria Steinem

  Children, Thinking, Understanding

  Source: www.washingtontimes.com

• There is bias and sexism everywhere, just like there are problems of racism and homophobia stemming from the whole notion that we're arranged in a hierarchy, that we're ranked rather than linked.

  Gloria Steinem

  Racism, Hierarchy, Discrimination

  "The Humanist Interview with Gloria Steinem". Interview with Jennifer Bardi, thehumanist.com. August 14, 2012.

• I definitely think men can be leaders. I see an analogy in the case of what helped me think about racism, which was to find parallels with sexism. In other words, I don't think I was such a great ally until I got mad on my own behalf.

  Gloria Steinem

  Men, Thinking, Racism

  Interview with Jennifer Bardi, thehumanist.com. August 14, 2012.

• ... patriarchy creates megapatterns that affect us all--even as we forge different individual choices within them--just as do themegapatterns of nationalism or racism.

  Gloria Steinem

  Individual Choice, Racism, Choices

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