Gloria Steinem
Gloria Steinem
Gloria Marie Steinemis an American feminist, journalist, and social and political activist, who became nationally recognized as a leader and a spokeswoman for the feminist movement in the late 1960s and early 1970s...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionActivist
Date of Birth25 March 1934
CountryUnited States of America
people choices events
You have no choice but to live in the present, if you're really being open to events and people as they come along.
passivity-is body feminine
It's not okay for a woman to be in control of her own body, her own reproductive system, much less of her life. There's opposition even to that. So passivity is rewarded as feminine.
age needs world
I hope readers will consider, especially in this age of the World Wide Web, that as miraculous as it is, we still need to be in the same room with all five senses if we are to empathize with each other.
problem crime victim
Crime is not the problem of the victim, the victim didn't create the crime.
girl men equal-pay
Any insistence on equal pay is crucial and any redefinition of work to include caregiving work so that it also has an economic value, at least at replacement level, that's crucial. So change does come from the bottom up, and it will come from girls and women and men who understand that for us all to be human beings instead of being grouped by gender is good for them, too.
country thinking iceland
I don't think there's any country that has equal pay, not even Sweden or Iceland.
men reason gender
You can hardly open a newspaper without seeing that a woman has been killed by a man for clearly gender-related reasons.
men different demand
There's going to be a demand for perfectionism on the part of Hillary Clinton, or any other pro-equality woman candidate, that would not be made of men. There are going to be attacks based on different standards of morality and different standards of dress and physical attractiveness.
jobs white house
It would be a disaster to have Sarah Palin or Carly Fiorina in the White House, so it's not just a woman, but a woman who stands for the majority needs of women. It's not just getting a job for one woman, it's making life better for all women.
feels isolated ifs
If we're isolated, we come to feel powerless when we're not.
way married traditional-marriage
Looking at traditional marriages, it seems the surest way for a woman to be alone is to get married.
winning politics want
the new women in politics seem to be saying that we already know how to lose, thank you very much. Now we want to learn how to win.
sex pornography
it's possible to be pro-sex and anti-pornography.
firsts violence economics
I would say that reproductive freedom comes first, then violence and economics.