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
psychic women
In a way, women are a psychic immigrant group.
I'm a freelance person, and I've always been able to support myself.
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I always wanted to put a sign up on the road to Yale saying, 'Beware: Deconstruction Ahead.'
communal people
Because we are communal creatures, if you're with people who think you're smart, you're smart, and if they think you're dumb, you're dumb.
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Women don't want to exchange places with men. Male chauvinists, science-fiction writers and comedians may favor that idea for its shock value, but psychologists say it is a fantasy based on ruling-class ego and guilt.
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I supported Hillary Clinton. She would have made an excellent president. I didn't think she could get elected. I thought it was too soon.
guy money
A parking lot attendant who's a guy makes a lot more money than a child-care attendant who's a woman.
countries until
We're never going to have democratic countries or peaceful countries until we have democratic or peaceful families.
death except experience far
Everything about aging in my experience so far has been a plus. Except the death part!
bad
A bad facelift is like a bad toupee.
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Even before Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton threw their exploratory committees into the ring, every reporter seemed to be asking, 'Which candidate are Americans more ready for: a white woman or a black man?'
time
If I read the word 'problematize' one more time, I'm going to vomit.
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You can see the absence of women in governing bodies from Congress to state legislators, on corporate boards, in tenured positions in academia, and as forepeople in factories.
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As long as working women also have to do the work of child and family care at home, they will have two jobs instead of one. Perhaps more important, children will grow up thinking that only women can be loving and nurturing, and men cannot.