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
race radical-feminism helping
In every century, there are a handful of writers who help the human race to evolve. Andrea is one of them.
believe writing
Writing keeps me from believing everything I read.
writing issues people
I would write about issues and people I met along the way, but not about the process and the life of being on the road.
writing pride accomplishment
For me, writing is the only thing that passes the three tests of metier: (1) when I'm doing it, I don't feel that I should be doing something else instead: (2) it produces a sense of accomplishment and, nce in a while, pride; and (3) it's frightening.
sleep way ifs
If women could sleep their way to the top, there'd be a lot more women at the top.
body demand individual
Each individual woman's body demands to be accepted on its own terms.
want fool essentials
So whatever you want to do, just do it...Making a damn fool of yourself is absolutely essential.
thinking never-quit kind
I never quite trust futurists because I think they're kind of telling us what they think our future should be.
strong giving use
No one can give us power. If we aren’t part of the process of taking it, we won’t be strong enough to use it.
inspirational success night
Rich People plan for three generations Poor people plan for Saturday night
strong-women taken power
Power can be taken, but not given. The process of the taking is empowerment in itself.
together information use
The highest use of the Web is getting the information and identifying the places and the possibility of being together physically.
strong children mean
We are still in various kinds of patriarchal systems. The very definition of patriarchy is that men control women as the means of reproduction, so the idea that a woman's main role is to have children often means society wants more workers, more soldiers. The idea that how many children we have should be controlled by the family, the church, the nation - by anyone but women themselves - is still very deep and very strong.
funny marriage witty
I have yet to hear a man ask for advice on how to combine marriage and a career.