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
dream real inspiration
If what's inside your dreams wasn't already real inside you, you couldn't even dream it.
bosnia far-away victim
Why are women raped far away (say, Bosnia) called victims, while those raped nearby (say, a local campus) are playing victim politics?
dream ideas doe
Language can't solve everything, of course, but it does carry our dreams and our ideas.
pimp free-will mets
I've only ever met one woman who actually was a prostitute of her own free will. She didn't have a pimp. She could pick and choose her customers. That's so rare.
mistake stories dogma
The dogma is that that dogma is a mistake.
social-values racism reconstruction
Work is valued by the social value of the worker.
anorexia mind toledo
In my own mind, I am still a fat brunette from Toledo, and I always will be.
fun men ideas
The problem is, for men and women, the idea that sexuality is about dominance and submission, when, in fact, cooperation is a lot more fun, to put it my way. So some of it, a lot of it, is just about empathy.
domestic-violence alive might
If [George] Zimmerman had been arrested for domestic violence, Trayvon Martin might still be alive.
numbers freedom-of-speech democracy
If we were going to address what involves the biggest number of women, reproductive freedom is a fundamental human right - like freedom of speech, the most basic right. Freedom from violence, since women worldwide are still like 70% at least of all victims of violence. Equality in the family, democracy in the family, since the family is the microcosm of everything else, so if you have inequality and violence in the family, it normalizes it in the street, for foreign policy, for every place else.
time
If I read the word 'problematize' one more time, I'm going to vomit.
communal people
Because we are communal creatures, if you're with people who think you're smart, you're smart, and if they think you're dumb, you're dumb.
constitution women
The Constitution did not mention women when it was first written, and it still doesn't.
adult against argued hierarchy men religious suffrage universal white women
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.