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
silence listening males
Male silence is not the same as listening
morning writing insecure
As a profession, freelance writing is notoriously insecure. That's the first argument in its favor. For many reasons, a few of them rational, the thought of knowing exactly what next year's accomplishments, routine, income, and vacation will be - or even what time I have to get up tomorrow morning - has always depressed me.
winning majority consciousness
Severe opposition is a measure of success (because) one inevitable result of winning a majority change in consciousness is a backlash from those forces whose power depended on the old one.
fun men ideas
The problem is, for men and women, the idea that sexuality is about dominance and submission, when, in fact, cooperation is a lot more fun, to put it my way. So some of it, a lot of it, is just about empathy.
character dangerous dangerous-things
Intelligence without character is a dangerous thing.
giving-up light people
Don't listen to me. Listen to yourself ... People often ask me at this age, 'Who am I passing the torch to?' First of all, I'm not giving up my torch, thank you! I'm using my torch to light other people's torches. ... If we each have a torch, there's a lot more light.
leader waiting
You are the leader you've been waiting for.
numbers freedom-of-speech democracy
If we were going to address what involves the biggest number of women, reproductive freedom is a fundamental human right - like freedom of speech, the most basic right. Freedom from violence, since women worldwide are still like 70% at least of all victims of violence. Equality in the family, democracy in the family, since the family is the microcosm of everything else, so if you have inequality and violence in the family, it normalizes it in the street, for foreign policy, for every place else.
say-anything groups can-not
When you say something in a wrong group - it will never be right, so you can not say anything wrong, when you don't belong to a group.
love support risk
Being able to support oneself allows one to choose a marriage out of love and not just economic dependence. It also allows one to risk that marriage.
writing written
I don't like writing. I like having written.
long humanist bad-word
I always thought that "humanist" was a good word long before I understood that anyone thought it was a bad word.
beautiful
Thank you for all your good and beautiful work.
self logic justified
Oppression has no logic--just a self-fulfilling prophecy, justified by a self-perpetuating system.