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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The art of acting morally is behaving as if everything we do matters.
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The state of female artists is very good. But the very definition of art has been biased in that 'art' was what men did in a European tradition and 'crafts' were what women and natives did. But it's actually all the same.
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Most art in the world does not have a capital 'A,' but is a way of turning everyday objects into personal expressions.
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If the men in the room would only think how they would feel graduating with a 'spinster of arts' degree they would see how important this is.
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Think about the pressure to "pass" by lying about one's agethat familiar temptation to falsify a condition of one's birth oridentity and pretend to be part of a more favored group. Fair-skinned blacks invented "passing" as a term, Jews escaping anti-Semitism perfected the art, and the sexual closet continues the punishment, but pretending to be a younger age is probably the most encouraged form of "passing," with the least organized support for "coming out" as one's true generational self.
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... the art of politics is to be ahead of your time--about six months will do it. Any more than that, and people forget you were there.
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The art of being helpful is behaving as if everything we do matters - because we never know which things might.
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Like art, revolutions come from combining what exists into what has never existed before.
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The art of life is not controlling what happens to us, but using what happens to us
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Do women compete for the favours of men? Yes. They've spent 5,000 years competing.
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One thing is sure. Women and girls will have their first vision of a female network anchor who is an authority on her own. Since we learn by example, there's no telling where that iconic image may lead.
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Men should think twice before making widowhood women's only path to power
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In a general way, anything that affects men is taken more seriously than anything that affects only women.
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I started out life as a writer, and writers write in part because they don't want to talk.