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
against men violence white women
The same way that racism is a white person's problem, violence against women is a men's problem.
order body violence
Violence against women is clearly not solved, not at all solved, and the reasons for it, which are controlling women's bodies in order to control reproduction, are definitely not solved.
firsts violence economics
I would say that reproductive freedom comes first, then violence and economics.
political use violence
No other form of violence is legitimate. It is never acceptable to use violence to solve a problem. Whether personal or political.
domestic-violence alive might
If [George] Zimmerman had been arrested for domestic violence, Trayvon Martin might still be alive.
attitude tables violence
During the first suffragist wave in this nation, women were possessions, like a table or a chair. So violence toward them was quite condoned. The attitude has diminished, but it's still there.
may violence add
From pacifist to terrorist, each person condemns violence - and then adds one cherished case in which it may be justified.
four violence generations
One act of violence takes four generations to heal.
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.
violence generations raised
What would happen if even one generation were raised with respect and without violence?
mean self violence
Violence is not inevitable. I mean, the only inevitable form of violence is the kind that we understand, the only legitimate (if there can ever be legitimate violence) and that's self-defense.
men violence culture
The origins of violence against women by men are not biological. If that were the case, it would exist in every culture. And it doesn't exist in every culture.
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.