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
men race diversity
Clearly no one knows what leadership has gone undiscovered in women of all races, and in black and other minority men.
class ideas racist
I wouldn't want to generalize, but we still do live in a society that's sexist and racist and addicted to class and has the ridiculous idea that if you have money you're smarter, which Donald Trump by himself should be able to disprove.
change shoes feet
If the shoe doesn't fit, must we change the foot?
talking president movement
What has the women's movement learned from Geraldine Ferraro's candidacy for vice president? Never get married.
social-values racism reconstruction
Work is valued by the social value of the worker.
unique different
Everyone is unique and each experience is different.
anorexia mind toledo
In my own mind, I am still a fat brunette from Toledo, and I always will be.
jobs ideas needs
Unless we include a job as part of every citizen's right to autonomy and personal fulfillment, women will continue to be vulnerable to someone else's idea of what need is.
food deserving-it feminist
For much of the female half of the world, food is the first signal of our inferiority. It lets us know that our own families may consider female bodies to be less deserving, less needy, less valuable.
men thinking community
We do what we see and what we're told. If we haven't been raised in a family or in a community where women are treated as full human beings and men don't have to be superior anymore, we continue to think that it's not only natural but inevitable.
thinking looks
Having someone who looks like us but thinks like them is worse than having no one at all.
parent proud
we are the women our parents warned us against, and we are proud
teaching needs teach
We teach what we need to learn.
men two funny-marriage
Marriage works best for men than women. The two happiest groups are married men and unmarried women.