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
people choices events
You have no choice but to live in the present, if you're really being open to events and people as they come along.
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The point is less what we choose than that we have the power to make a choice.
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Feminism is not antisexuality. On the contrary. It says that sexuality shouldn't be confused with violence and dominance and that it should be a matter of free choice. It shouldn't be forced on you by economics, including dependence on a husband, or by pressure.
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Women have two choices: Either she's a feminist or a masochist.
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In order to make a choice, you need the power to see there is one.
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[Erotica] contains the idea of love, positive choice, and the yearning for a particular person.
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... patriarchy creates megapatterns that affect us all--even as we forge different individual choices within them--just as do themegapatterns of nationalism or racism.
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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.
life writers
I started out life as a writer, and writers write in part because they don't want to talk.
women
Female inferiority is internalised by us. Women need a lot more confidence.