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
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
art might matter
The art of being helpful is behaving as if everything we do matters - because we never know which things might.
mean self violence
Violence is not inevitable. I mean, the only inevitable form of violence is the kind that we understand, the only legitimate (if there can ever be legitimate violence) and that's self-defense.
past equal
Women have always been an equal part of the past. We just havent been a part of history.
unique voice causes
When unique voices are united in a common cause, they make history.
girl boys views
Girls are taught to view their bodies as unending projects to work on, whereas boys from a young age, are taught to view their bodies as tools to master their environment
jobs children men
When you stand up for yourself and try to be autonomous and self-determining, you're called a lot of names that we all know and that are very common. You may lose your job. You may lose custody of your child. You may be blamed for the failure of your marriage even though it was the man who couldn't tolerate an equal relationship.
children believe years
By the year 2000 we will, I hope, raise our children to believe in human potential, not God.