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
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.
witty circles political
It doesn't matter where we begin the personal/political circle, but it matters desperately that we complete it.
boys roles gender
When the gender role starts to descend, boys get into the masculine box.
integrity acting matter
The act of acting morally is behaving as if everything we do matters.
mother years world
In retrospect, perhaps the biggest reason my mother was cared for but not helped for twenty years was the simplest: Her functioning was not that necessary to the world.
unhappy mysterious unhappy-family
Happy or Unhappy, families are all mysterious.
may violence add
From pacifist to terrorist, each person condemns violence - and then adds one cherished case in which it may be justified.
girl clever boys
The gender prism is just descending upon us. For instance, when we're girls of nine or 10 we may be climbing trees and saying, "I know what I want. I know what I think." And then suddenly at 11 or 12, the gender role takes hold, and adults tell us, "How clever of you to know what time it is." It happens to boys, too and even sooner - between five and eight. Before that, boys cry and express uncertainty.
workout women power
Men should think twice before making widow hood woman's only path to power.
inspirational discomfort i-can
The only thing I can't stand is discomfort.
work double-standard care
Because I have work to care about, it is possible that I may be less difficult to get along with than other women when the double chins start to form.