"The family is the basic cell of government:……" — Gloria Steinem
"The family is the basic cell of government: it is where we are trained to believe that we are human beings or that we are chattel, it is where we are trained to see the sex and race divisions and become callous to injustice even if it is done to ourselves, to accept as biological a full system of authoritarian government."
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Gloria Steinem
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298 Quotes by Gloria Steinem
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