It's going to take a while because for the last 500 years patriarchal societies have been devoted to … - Gloria Steinem

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I don't quite see the 20th century as one of chaos. But I believe in certain inevitable outcomes of a materialist nature.

Gloria Steinem

It's going to take a while because for the last 500 years patriarchal societies have been devoted to controlling reproduction and that means controlling women. So we got into this masculine
feminine, dominant
passive paradigm, and it's going to take a while to get out.

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