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
war dirty army
Any woman who chooses to behave like a full human being should be warned that the armies of the status quo will treat her as something of a dirty joke. That's their natural and first weapon. She will need her sisterhood.
oxytocin five-senses hormones
It turns out that we literally don't empathize unless we're physically present - that the oxytocin, the famous "tend and befriend" hormone is not produced unless we're present with all five senses.
moving-on people feminist
The future depends entirely on what each of us does every day; a movement is only people moving.
money giving world
It is more rewarding to watch money change the world than watch it accumulate.
mother children father
Most American children suffer too much mother and too little father.
pimp free-will mets
I've only ever met one woman who actually was a prostitute of her own free will. She didn't have a pimp. She could pick and choose her customers. That's so rare.
reality generations needs
We need to remember across generations that there is as much to learn as there is to teach.
may paganism details
God may be in the details, but the goddess is in the questions. Once we begin to ask them, there's no turning back.
reading feminist feminism
A woman reading Playboy feels a little like a Jew reading a Nazi manual.
years support democracy
I guess 35 years ago, I thought we had more of a democracy than we actually do. Majority support doesn't help unless the majority is active and votes - but the opposition minority votes a much greater proportion, so we often lose by a narrow margin.
resistance firsts social
The first resistance to social change is to say it's not necessary.
art feminist revolution
Like art, revolutions come from combining what exists into what has never existed before.
men emotional long
If women are supposed to be less rational and more emotional at the beginning of our menstrual cycle when the female hormone is at its lowest level, then why isn't it logical to say that, in those few days, women behave the most like the way men behave all month long?
thinking names people
I think we all have the power to name ourselves. I try to call people what it is they wish to be called. But we can take the sting out of epithets and bad words by using them.