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
thinking games people
I think that we need to change the culture, not blame the people that are playing the only game that exists.
world changing-the-world fit
We're changing ourselves to fit the world instead of changing the world to fit women.
marriage men gambling
Someone once asked me why women don't gamble as much as men do and I gave the commonsensical reply that we don't have as much money. That was a true but incomplete answer. In fact, women's total instinct for gambling is satisfied by marriage.
children unique self
But somewhere within each of us, buried at varying depths depending on the age and degree of neglect or abuse, shame or coercion we endured, there is a resistant, daydreaming, rebellious, creative, unique child -- a true self who is waiting.
race half show-me
Show me something that is not transformed by the other half of the human race.
home men feminist
Women are not going to be equal outside the home until men are equal in it.
empathy stories want
I want us to organize, to tell the personal stories that create empathy, which is the most revolutionary emotion.
moving imagine
We have to imagine change before we can begin to move toward it.
sex years holocaust
If you add up all the forms of genocide, from female infanticide and genital mutilation to so-called honor crimes, sex trafficking, and domestic abuse, everything, we lose about 6 million humans every year just because they were born female. That's a holocaust every year.
healing order choices
In order to make a choice, you need the power to see there is one.
violence generations raised
What would happen if even one generation were raised with respect and without violence?
war men firsts
They would say well there's always been wars, men have always beaten women. But it isn't true in all cultures. It doesn't have to be true. And the first step is imaging.
listening helping
Helping begins with listening.
ideas want matter
The whole idea is not to figure out what you should do that will matter, but to make each thing you do reflect the values you want, because we don't know what's going to matter in the future