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
age needs world
I hope readers will consider, especially in this age of the World Wide Web, that as miraculous as it is, we still need to be in the same room with all five senses if we are to empathize with each other.
needs golden treats
The need to treat ourselves as well as we treat others. It's women's version of the Golden Rule.
self hatred needs
Self-hatred leads to the need either to dominate or to be dominated.
education needs self-education
We need to unlearn some of our respect for education, since it has undermined our respect for ourselves.
wish needs golden
A portable friend to all readers-especia lly but not only women-who need to learn that the Golden Rule works only if it's reversible: We must learn to treat ourselves as well as we wish to treat others.
want tiny needs
The phenomenon of the woman who's asked what movie she wants to see, and she says, "I don't know. What do you want to see?" It's a tiny version of a big tendency. Women need to say, "This is what I want."
jobs ideas needs
Unless we include a job as part of every citizen's right to autonomy and personal fulfillment, women will continue to be vulnerable to someone else's idea of what need is.
teaching needs teach
We teach what we need to learn.
love men needs
Some women and men seem to need each other.
support needs we-need-each-other
Human beings are communal beings and we can't exist or prosper by ourselves. We need each other's support.
presidential would-be needs
You can't be what you can't see, so it's harder for women to say, "I'm going to be a [presidential] candidate," so we need to go to women who would be good candidates and say, "You would be a good candidate and I'll help you." It's not a passive question, it's not when will it happen, but an active question, when will we make it happen?
writing needs terrible
I began to understand with a terrible sureness that we teach what we need to learn and write what we need to know.
country violence needs
We need to take violence against women seriously. It is the biggest indicator of whether a country is violent inside itself, and whether it will be militarily violent against another country.
people needs accomplish
In the late '60s, people were saying we need power to, not power over. Power to do, accomplish, create, not power over other people.