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
unique voice causes
When unique voices are united in a common cause, they make history.
healing order choices
In order to make a choice, you need the power to see there is one.
ideas people decision
I can only tell you the kind of power I want, which is the power to persuade. But I do not want the power to tell other people what to do. Persuade assumes that the other person is going to make the decision. Especially as a writer and an activist, I want the power to put ideas and possibilities out there, but I understand that they will only work if they are freely chosen, so I don't want the power to dictate or to force the choice, ever.
reading feminist feminism
A woman reading Playboy feels a little like a Jew reading a Nazi manual.
equality men feminist
Most women are one man away from welfare.
resistance firsts social
The first resistance to social change is to say it's not necessary.
reality generations needs
We need to remember across generations that there is as much to learn as there is to teach.
cupcakes america people
America is an enormous frosted cupcake in the middle of millions of starving people.
money giving world
It is more rewarding to watch money change the world than watch it accumulate.
moving mean weekend
A movement is only composed of people moving. To feel its warmth and motion around us is the end as well as the means.
children men circles
They're all qualities wrongly called feminine: attention to detail, patience, empathy. I don't have children, but I was raised as a female to have those qualities because they're perceived as feminine. Until men are raised with those qualities, too, they won't have the full circle of human qualities.
inspirational change inspiring
The first problem for all of us, men and women, is not to learn, but to unlearn.
pregnancy self defense
Childbirth is more admirable than conquest, more amazing than self-defense, and as courageous as either one.
children unique self
But somewhere within each of us, buried at varying depths depending on the age and degree of neglect or abuse, shame or coercion we endured, there is a resistant, daydreaming, rebellious, creative, unique child -- a true self who is waiting.