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
thinking law innovation
I think one of the great innovations of sexual harassment law was that it did not use the word "consent." It used the word "welcome."
mother generations my-generation
A lot of my generation are living out the un-lived lives of our mothers.
textbooks
Each others' lives are our best textbooks.
inspiring sad death
Dying seems less sad than having lived too little.
adaptable courses
Of course, we can change. We're very adaptable. But it takes a while.
self-esteem passion finding-yourself
Self-esteem isn't everything; it's just that there's nothing without it.
business two people
There are two types of people in the world, those who say 'there are two types of people in the world' and those who don't.
single wedding way
The surest way to be alone is to get married.
rivers air water
The cleanup costs of polluting a river, injecting pesticides into the ground water, or putting noxious gases into the air have not been figured into the cost of the manufacturing or agribusiness that put them there in the first place. Historically, the economic incentive has been to pollute.
teacher school justice
Even when educators survey grade school texts and create new bibliographies to help teachers include Asians, Eskimos, and other Americans, females in and out of those groups may be down-played or forgotten.
believe numbers justice
Economic systems are not value-free columns of numbers based on rules of reason, but ways of expressing what varying societies believe is important.
mean years lasts
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.
sarcastic water bugs
She is a water bug on the surface of life.
real unique female
For women... bras, panties, bathing suits, and other stereotypical gear are visual reminders of a commercial, idealized feminine image that our real and diverse female bodies can't possibly fit. Without these visual references, each individual woman's body demands to be accepted on its own terms. We stop being comparatives. We begin to be unique.