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
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.
cupcakes america people
America is an enormous frosted cupcake in the middle of millions of starving people.
women space pedestal
A pedestal is as much a prison as any small, confined space.
writing should feels
Writing is the only thing that, when I do it, I don't feel I should be doing something else.
moving mean weekend
A movement is only composed of people moving. To feel its warmth and motion around us is the end as well as the means.
superwoman super-woman ifs
There is no such thing as Superwoman. You cant have everything if you do everything.
wealth feminine masculinity
We'll never solve the feminization of power until we solve the masculinity of wealth.
values
We can tell our values by looking at our checkbook stubs.