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
life writers
I started out life as a writer, and writers write in part because they don't want to talk.
full life lived observer school until
I didn't go to school a full year until I was 11 or 12, so I lived in books. I really was an observer of life.
began dawn life
Feminism began to dawn on my brain belatedly in life.
life living paid price women
Like so many women, I was living out the unlived life of my mother - so I wouldn't be her. But the price I paid was that I distanced myself internally.
life
Gender is probably the most restricting force in American life.
life healing journey
The point of the journey is not just healing. It's also recovering the truest, most spontaneous, joyful, and creative core of ourselves.
life childhood late
It's never to late for a happy childhood.
process lifelong
An education is not a thing one gets, but a lifelong process.
art life-is happens
The art of life is not controlling what happens to us, but using what happens to us
inspirational life motivational
Without leaps of imagination, or dreaming, we lose the excitement of possibilities. Dreaming, after all, is a form of planning.
affects general men taken women
In a general way, anything that affects men is taken more seriously than anything that affects only women.
women
Female inferiority is internalised by us. Women need a lot more confidence.
classic cured parental problem
As for the American child's classic problem - too much mother, too little father - that would be cured by an equalization of parental responsibility.
anyone controls depending women
Anything can be used for or against the welfare of women - or the welfare of anyone - depending on who controls it.