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
hefner himself history hugh last wants
I think Hefner himself wants to go down in history as a person of sophistication and glamour. But the last person I would want to go down in history as is Hugh Hefner.
benefit experience perhaps questioned remain role women work
Having one's traditional role questioned is not a very comfortable experience, perhaps especially for women, who have been able to remain children, and to benefit from work they did not and could not do.
brilliant history lived restored study
Gerda Lerner was fierce, brilliant and unique. She lived history by her bravery, restored history by her scholarship, and democratized its study by her activism.
knows met
You know there is a person inside every baby, right? And anybody who has ever met a baby knows there is already a person in there.
emphasis shift
We must begin to shift the emphasis of teen-age pregnancy to teen-age boys.
against men violence white women
The same way that racism is a white person's problem, violence against women is a men's problem.
guys issues jam pearl sing
Pearl Jam doesn't just sing about issues they care about. These guys walk it like they talk it.
Obviously, no LGBT person should be denied the ability to be who they are because their boss disagrees.
count experience good human jobs places positions
What we need to be able to do is count all human experience. So I would like to count the secretarial positions as good training places to take over the jobs of the bosses.
lose sustain
What happens at 50, more or less, you lose what you need to create another person, to sustain another person; you keep what you need to sustain yourself. And there's something wonderful about that.
behaving change easily family financial looking meant men pattern support work worker
We are still behaving as if a worker really doesn't have a family because the work pattern really was meant for men who really were the financial support but weren't looking after their families. We need to change this, and we can easily do that.
brought consciousness immune system
The AIDS crisis has brought us a consciousness of the immune system as the most important health-maintenance element, and a consciousness of how it is under attack.
ad ads clothing connected directed food lavish magazine products rules unless women
'Ms.' always flouted the rules of the ad world that say, especially for products directed at women, that the ad must be connected to the editorial. You don't have food ads unless you have recipes. You don't get clothing ads unless you have lavish fashion coverage. We never did that; every other women's magazine does.
life living paid price women
Like so many women, I was living out the unlived life of my mother - so I wouldn't be her. But the price I paid was that I distanced myself internally.