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
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
jobs pie feminism
Feminism has never been about getting a job for one woman. It's about making life more fair for women everywhere. It's not about a piece of the existing pie; there are too many of us for that. It's about baking a new pie.
children thinking law
A lot of the people who are supposed to be enforcing the crime, enforcing the law, are also criminals. They've suppressed something in their childhood and they don't want to think they themselves were sexually abused as children or they are abusing their own children and they're sitting on a bench and they either can't admit it, won't admit it, depending on how deeply buried it is.
writing creative-writing written
I do not like to write - I like to have written.
two feminist choices
Women have two choices: Either she's a feminist or a masochist.
law justice battered-women
Law and justice are not always the same.
men talking masculine-and-feminine
If we keep on talking about masculine and feminine and following those stereotypes, then we will make women suppress and despise their so called masculine qualities and men suppress and despise their so called feminine ones, and that's where all the trouble starts.
simple views feminism
Feminism starts out being very simple, and it ends up being a world view that questions hierarchy altogether.