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
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How could you not love Norman Mailer? He was a total chauvinist, but also so vulnerable.
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Children are short people. Some you like, some you don't.
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Feminism began to dawn on my brain belatedly in life.
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It's easier to blame the person with less power.
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Perhaps McCain has opposed affirmative action for so long that he doesn't know it's about inviting more people to meet standards, not lowering them.
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The question of whether one has one's own political power or goes to work for someone else is not only a feminist question.
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What's so valuable about HBO is they tell stories. We learn from stories.
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Part of the reason that women go to college is to get out of the food service, clerical, pink-collar ghetto and into a more white-collar job. That does not necessarily mean they are being paid more than the blue-collar jobs men have.
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The danger of the Internet is cocooning with the like-minded online - of sending an email or Twitter and confusing that with action - while the real corporate and military and government centers of power go right on.
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If you are not a feminist in love, you fail to recognise someone who does not love you. Feminism makes love easier. Otherwise, there is the danger of feeling romantically drawn to someone who does not see you as an equal.
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In the suffragist and abolitionist era, there were a lot of white women and some black men and women who argued for the old hierarchy and against universal adult suffrage - often on religious grounds.
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Secretary of state is far superior to vice president, because it's involved in continuously solving problems and making policy and not being on standby.
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I think if women are visible in the media, truly visible, in an empowered role, it empowers us to be more visible in any area of our lives.
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Fashion in the past meant conforming and losing oneself. Fashion in the present means being individual and finding oneself.