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
want tiny needs
The phenomenon of the woman who's asked what movie she wants to see, and she says, "I don't know. What do you want to see?" It's a tiny version of a big tendency. Women need to say, "This is what I want."
might plot politician
If you let Barnum & Bailey interpret a plot by Stendahl, it might come out to be something like the 1972 Democratic convention.
coffee politician makers
Women are never again going to be mindless coffee-makers or mindless policy-makers in politics.
home doors different
Though both erotica and pornography refer to verbal or pictorial representations of sexual behavior, they are as different as a room with doors open and one with doors locked. The first might be a home, but the second could only be a prison.
powerful men important
In almost any situation, if you have been the powerful one, which would tend to be men more than women but not always, it's very important to listen as much as you talk. If you have been the less powerful one, it's very important to talk as much as you listen.
home wanted psychoanalysis
Paradoxically, only journeying backward in time and reentering the home we once knew allows us to go forward to the home we've always wanted.
prejudice mark landmines
Prejudice marks a mental landmine.
revenge children people
Our children are the only people on whom we can safely take revenge for what was done to us.
rejection way blame
A rejection of the way a woman speaks is often a way of blaming or dismissing her without dealing with the content of what she is saying.
dream ideas doe
Language can't solve everything, of course, but it does carry our dreams and our ideas.
sex heart long
Obviously, untangling sex from aggression and violence or the threat of it is going to take a very long time. And the process is going to be greatly resisted as a challenge to the very heart of male dominance and male centrality.
men expectations silence
The uncomfortable truth seems to be that the amount of talk by women has been measured less against the amount of men's talk than against the expectation of female silence.
pain believe abuse
when pain has been intertwined with love and closeness, it's very difficult to believe that love and closeness can be experienced without pain.
believe unhappy would-be
Happy or unhappy, families are all mysterious. We have only to imagine how differently we would be described - and will be, after our deaths - by each of the family members who believe they know us.