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
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.
gratitude past care
Gratitude never radicalized anybody. I don't care if they recognize the past, I just want them to get angry about the present and keep going.
love men needs
Some women and men seem to need each other.
men way faults
Men, through no fault of theirs, get born into cultures that tell them that if a woman can do it, it's not worth doing, or if they're not superior to women in one way or another, they're not really masculine.
democracy income mob-rule
Democracy is mob rule with income taxes.