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
want
We choose to be writers because we don't want to talk.
writing written
I don't like writing. I like having written.
wise smart funny-things
The most impersonal seeming audiences eventually just say such intimate, smart, wise, amazing, totally surprising, funny things. It's empowering, in the sense of feeling like you're a part of something really important.
friendship good-friend conversation
A good friendship is a conversation that never ends.
want
Whatever you want to do,do it now.
strong-women mean thinking
It doesn't matter what word we use, if it has the same content, it will be treated in the same way. There are other words - there's "womanist," there's "mujerista," there's "women's liberationist" - all mean the same thing and they get the same ridicule. I think we just need to choose what word we feel comfortable with that says women are full human beings, and whatever that word is, it will get a lot of opposition. But it will also attract a lot of support. But this is a revolution, not a public relations movement.
sex taken barriers
So why is the sex barrier not taken as seriously as the racial one?
masculine-and-feminine circles ideas
The original languages didn't even have he and she. They didn't have concepts of masculine and feminine. People were people. And the whole idea was that we were in a circle together, not in a hierarchy together.
dream humorous justice
As a writer and as a human being, Susan Dworkin has always had the ability to draw us into new dreams of justice, and to make them irresistibly practical, humorous and human. She makes clear that progress and pleasure go together.
unhappy mysterious unhappy-family
Happy or Unhappy, families are all mysterious.
motivational women feminist
Women are always saying,"We can do anything that men cando." But Men should be saying,"We can do anything that women can do.
dominance pornography
Pornography is about dominance. Erotica is about mutuality.
sex captivity mates
I can't mate in captivity.
teaching men males
If you're going to have a male dominant system, to maintain the system, you have to teach men to dominate.