I didn’t hear words that were accurate, much less prideful. For example, I never once heard the word … - Gloria Steinem

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Any man who has ever led an army, an expedition, or a group of Boy Scouts has sadism in his bones.

Gloria Steinem

I didn’t hear words that were accurate, much less prideful. For example, I never once heard the word clitoris. It would be years before I learned that females possessed the only organ in the human body with no function than to feel pleasure. (If such an organ were unique to the male body, can you imagine how much we would hear about it—and what it would be used to justify?)

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We've begun to raise daughters more like sons. . . but few have the courage to raise our sons more like our daughters.

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At my age, in this still hierarchical time, people often ask me if I’m “passing the torch. ” I explain that I’m keeping my torch, thank you very much-and I’m using it to light the torches of others.

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