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
aging family feelings great matter terrible trouble
The thing about aging is all your old lovers, pretty much if they were really friends, become your family. It's great. You have those terrible feelings of possessiveness and uncertainty go out the window. You have what you shared. You know you would help each other in times of trouble no matter what.
heart want matter
No matter how hard I worked, whatever I accomplished was attributed to my looks. If you're working your ass off, then you don't want to be told that you only got whatever because of the way you look. It takes the heart out of you.
people matter responsible
It's a big gift to be recognizable as part of something that matters to people, but that's not the same as being responsible for something.
integrity acting matter
The act of acting morally is behaving as if everything we do matters.
matter behave
Behave like everything you do matters.
mirrors want matter
All biographers, no matter how sympathetic, end up using their subjects as mirrors to figure themselves out. I don't want to be anyone's mirror.
ideas want matter
The whole idea is not to figure out what you should do that will matter, but to make each thing you do reflect the values you want, because we don't know what's going to matter in the future
art might matter
The art of being helpful is behaving as if everything we do matters - because we never know which things might.
compete favours men spent women
Do women compete for the favours of men? Yes. They've spent 5,000 years competing.
acting art behaving morally
The art of acting morally is behaving as if everything we do matters.
anchor authority female girls iconic image learn network since telling vision women
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.
men path power twice
Men should think twice before making widowhood women's only path to power
affects general men taken women
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.