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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If you hear a statistic, you will make up a story to go with it, because our brains are organized on narrative. And you may very well make up a wrong story because you only have one fact, which is a statistic.
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I was never against marriage per se. Before feminism, I didn't think you had any choice. In fact, for a long time I always assumed I would get married. I just didn't see any marriages I wanted to emulate, so I kept putting it off.
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I think Hefner himself wants to go down in history as a person of sophistication and glamour. But the last person I would want to go down in history as is Hugh Hefner.
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Having one's traditional role questioned is not a very comfortable experience, perhaps especially for women, who have been able to remain children, and to benefit from work they did not and could not do.
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Gerda Lerner was fierce, brilliant and unique. She lived history by her bravery, restored history by her scholarship, and democratized its study by her activism.
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You know there is a person inside every baby, right? And anybody who has ever met a baby knows there is already a person in there.
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We must begin to shift the emphasis of teen-age pregnancy to teen-age boys.
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The same way that racism is a white person's problem, violence against women is a men's problem.
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Pearl Jam doesn't just sing about issues they care about. These guys walk it like they talk it.
Obviously, no LGBT person should be denied the ability to be who they are because their boss disagrees.
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That is almost impossible to do -- to prove that a pregnancy would literally cause you to lose your life.
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It's important not to stigmatize the word Republican, because the great tragedy is an extremist group has taken over one of our great parties.
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What we need to be able to do is count all human experience. So I would like to count the secretarial positions as good training places to take over the jobs of the bosses.
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What happens at 50, more or less, you lose what you need to create another person, to sustain another person; you keep what you need to sustain yourself. And there's something wonderful about that.