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
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.
lying two people
If you have two groups of people and you say one is inferior to the other, which is a lie, then the only way to maintain the lie is through violence or the threat of violence.
women memorable feminist
Most women's magazines simply try to mold women into bigger and better consumers.
inspirational change inspiring
The first problem for all of us, men and women, is not to learn, but to unlearn.
giving-up approval easier
Once we give up searching for approval we often find it easier to earn respect.
children expression abuse
Sadomasochiasm - which we know very well doesn't exist in societies that don't have child abuse - is regarded some sort of natural sexual expression.
gambling instinct satisfied
Women's total instinct for gambling is satisfied by marriage
grateful be-grateful
no one ever got radicalized by being grateful