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
country years gathering
During years of working for a living, I have experienced much of the legal and social discrimination reserved for women in this country, I have been refused service in public restaurants, ordered out of public gathering places and turned away from apartment rentals. All for the clearly stated, sole reason that I am a woman.
children happens ifs
What would happen if we listened to children as much as we talked to them?
mean giving elements
For women, all women, whatever our sexuality, it's crucial to our health that we are able to separate sexuality from reproduction. I mean whether or not we can control when we give birth is the biggest element in our health, our education, our economic welfare, our life expectancy, everything.
past imagination mourning
When the past dies, there is mourning, but when the future dies our imaginations are compelled to carry it on.
girlfriend henry-kissinger kissinger
I am not now, and never have been, a girlfriend of Henry Kissinger.
writing people forever
Most writers write to say something about other people - and it doesn't last. Good writers write to find out about themselves - and it lasts forever.
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.