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
equal-pay feminist reform
If you say, I'm for equal pay, that's a reform. But if you say. I'm a feminist, that's a transformation of society.
thinking interesting effort
It's endlessly interesting to be organizing and hearing possible solutions or thinking of possible solutions and how to put efforts together. It makes everything else boring, actually.
men voting billionaire
The voting booth is the only place that a pauper equals a billionaire, and any woman equals any man.
men thinking problem
The young women seem to think that they can only go out with or marry a man who is superior to them. The problem there is that they are wanting to be defeated, as opposed to finding a partner.
thinking people feelings
I think I've wasted some of my time, but used most of it well, and have realized that my life is not separate from other people's lives or from the universe. I think our moments of happiness really come from a feeling of unity.
children opposites long
Children who have been very sadistically abused over the long-term are able to dissociate, some of them are able to dissociate as a way of surviving and inventing someone to whom this doesn't happen. And so therefore, they invent within themselves different personalities who have life histories of their own. Many people invent an opposite gender personality as well.
children parasites housewife
Housewives are dependent creatures who are still children…parasites.
real space frontiers
Inner space is the real frontier.
husband home men
Patriarchy requires violence or the subliminal threat of violence in order to maintain itself... The most dangerous situation for a woman is not an unknown man in the street, or even the enemy in wartime, but a husband or lover in the isolation of their home.
feminist waiting age
Women tend to be conservative in youth and get more radical as they get older because they lose power with age. So, if a young woman is not a feminist, I say, just wait.
home men together
Where men come to and women come together most intimately in sexuality in the home has become suffused with violence.
equality men feminist
Most women are one man away from welfare.
men becoming he-man
At my graduation, I thought we had to marry what we wished to become. Now you are becoming the men you once would have wished to marry.
pregnancy self defense
Childbirth is more admirable than conquest, more amazing than self-defense, and as courageous as either one.