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
gratitude past care
Gratitude never radicalized anybody. I don't care if they recognize the past, I just want them to get angry about the present and keep going.
college past cake
Proust's tea cake has nothing on one hour in a college dorm.
past imagination mourning
When the past dies, there is mourning, but when the future dies our imaginations are compelled to carry it on.
past equal
Women have always been an equal part of the past. We just havent been a part of history.
past laughing people
There were never that many women stand-up comics in the past because the power to make people laugh is also a power that gets people upset.
past answers problem
Clinging to the past is the problem. Embracing change is the answer.
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.
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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
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.
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.