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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Women tend to need the healthcare system more because we bear children. Insurance companies - not all of them, but many of them - 'gender-rate.' Women may pay 40% more for their health insurance than men do.
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The Constitution did not mention women when it was first written, and it still doesn't.
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How could you not love Norman Mailer? He was a total chauvinist, but also so vulnerable.
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These poor women in academia have to talk this silly language that nobody can understand in order to be accepted, they think.
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Children are short people. Some you like, some you don't.
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Diane Keaton is good for women in and of herself. She's smart and funny and real.
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Feminism began to dawn on my brain belatedly in life.
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I was the first woman to speak ever at the National Press Club, and they gave me a necktie.
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I'm lucky I don't make my living in front of the camera.
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It's easier to blame the person with less power.
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One's enemies are always talking about 'post-feminism.' It is a word invented by people who would like to do away with feminism.
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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 caste systems of sex and race are interdependent and can only be uprooted together.
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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.