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
boss experts persons
A person who has experienced something is almost always far more expert on it than are the experts.
mean class race
Controlling women as the means of reproduction is made even more necessary by any race or caste or class system. It just comes together, it's just like life. And therefore it's not even practical to be a feminist without being anti-racist or against classism. It just doesn't work.
thinking world fit
Don't think about making women fit the world -- think about making the world fit women."
graduation memorable funeral
I am terminally sentimental about graduations. They are more individual than weddings, more conscious than christenings, or bar mitzvahs or bat mitzvahs. They are almost as much a step into the unknown as funerals-though I assure you, there is life after graduation.
motivational women feminist
Women are always saying,"We can do anything that men cando." But Men should be saying,"We can do anything that women can do.
people needs accomplish
In the late '60s, people were saying we need power to, not power over. Power to do, accomplish, create, not power over other people.
powerful believe fate
... members of a powerful group are raised to believe (however illogically) that whatever affects it will also affect them. On theother hand, members of less powerful groups are raised to believe (however illogically) that each individual can escape the group's fate. Thus, cohesion is encouraged on the one hand, and disunity is fostered on the other.
missing magazines
I will no longer be referred to as Miss Steinem of Ms. magazine.
want more-time dies
I don't want to die saying but, you know? There's so much I want to do, so I want more time.
dream real inspiration
If what's inside your dreams wasn't already real inside you, you couldn't even dream it.
class planning-ahead goal
Planning ahead is a measure of class. The rich and even the middle class plan for future generations, but the poor can plan ahead only a few weeks or days.
crazy animal talking
We're communal animals. If we're by ourselves, we can feel wrong and crazy and out of step with society. We really need those talking circles.
men thinking stories
The road has been viewed as a male turf. If you think of the classic "Odyssey," of, you know, classical literature or Jack Kerouac or almost any road story, it's really about a man on the road. There's an assumption that the road is too dangerous for women.
children mean doe
I'm completely happy not having children. I mean, everybody does not have to live in the same way. And as somebody said, 'Everybody with a womb doesn't have to have a child any more than everybody with vocal cords has to be an opera singer.