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
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America is an enormous frosted cupcake in the middle of millions of starving people.
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A pedestal is as much a prison as any small, confined space.
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Writing is the only thing that, when I do it, I don't feel I should be doing something else.
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A movement is only composed of people moving. To feel its warmth and motion around us is the end as well as the means.
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There is no such thing as Superwoman. You cant have everything if you do everything.
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We'll never solve the feminization of power until we solve the masculinity of wealth.
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We can tell our values by looking at our checkbook stubs.
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The authority of any governing institution must stop at its citizen's skin.
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Whatever each individual woman is facing; only she knows her biggest challenge. However, if we add up the problems that affect the biggest numbers of women, then issues having to do with physical safety and reproduction are still the biggest. Female bodies are still the battleground, whether that means restricting freedom, birth control and safe abortion in order to turn them into factories, or abandoning female infants because females are less valuable for everything other than reproduction.
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Logic is in the eye of the logician.
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A woman without a man is like a fish without a bicycle.
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It's an incredible con job when you think about it, to believe something now in exchange for something after death. Even corporations with their reward systems don't try to make it posthumous.
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There were never that many women stand-up comics in the past because the power to make people laugh is also a power that gets people upset.
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Being married is like having somebody permanently in your corner. It feels limitless, not limited.