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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There's nothing automatic about political change, about liberation.
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We are still behaving as if a worker really doesn't have a family because the work pattern really was meant for men who really were the financial support but weren't looking after their families. We need to change this, and we can easily do that.
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The electoral system is not where change starts - it usually starts in communities and from the bottom up - but it is where change can be stopped.
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If the shoe doesn't fit, must we change the foot?
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Nothing will happen automatically. Change depends on what you and I do every day.
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change starts at the bottom. I think we're disempowered by the idea that it starts at the top, when really change is like a tree. It does start at the bottom.
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The first problem for all of us, men and woman, is not to learn, but to unlearn. We are filled with the popular wisdom of several centuries just past, and we are terrified to give it up. Patriotism means obedience, age means wisdom, woman means submission, black means inferior: these are preconceptions imbedded so deeply in our thinking that we honestly may not know that they are there.
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The first problem for all of us, men and women, is not to learn, but to unlearn.
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Nothing changes the gender equation more significantly than women's economic freedom.
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Do women compete for the favours of men? Yes. They've spent 5,000 years competing.
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The art of acting morally is behaving as if everything we do matters.
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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.