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
affects general men taken women
In a general way, anything that affects men is taken more seriously than anything that affects only women.
amendment bill civil democratic equal gradually happened left party republican rights supported taken
The Republican Party supported the Equal Rights Amendment before the Democratic Party did. But what happened was that a lot of very right-wing Democrats, after the civil rights bill of 1964, left the Democratic Party and gradually have taken over the Republican Party.
taken way playboy
I'd just begun to be taken seriously as a freelance writer, but after the Playboy article, I mostly got requests to go underground in some other semi-sexual way. It was so bad that I returned an advance to turn the Playboy article into a paperback, even though I had to borrow the money.
sex taken barriers
So why is the sex barrier not taken as seriously as the racial one?
taken responsibility giving
I did not see any way that I could possibly give birth to someone else and also give birth to myself. Far from feeling guilty, it was the first time that I had taken responsibility for my own life.
strong-women taken power
Power can be taken, but not given. The process of the taking is empowerment in itself.
extremist great group taken tragedy word
It's important not to stigmatize the word Republican, because the great tragedy is an extremist group has taken over one of our great parties.
asked gamble gambling gave incomplete instinct men reply satisfied total true women
Someone asked me why women don't gamble as much as men do, and I gave the commonsensical reply that we don't have as much money. That was a true and incomplete answer. In fact, women's total instinct for gambling is satisfied by marriage.
asked gamble gambling gave incomplete instinct reply satisfied total true women
Someone once asked me why women don't gamble as much as men do, and I gave the common-sensical reply that we don't have as much money. That was a true but incomplete answer. In fact, women's total instinct for gambling is satisfied by marriage.
acting art behaving morally
The art of acting morally is behaving as if everything we do matters.
life writers
I started out life as a writer, and writers write in part because they don't want to talk.
women
Female inferiority is internalised by us. Women need a lot more confidence.
classic cured parental problem
As for the American child's classic problem - too much mother, too little father - that would be cured by an equalization of parental responsibility.
anyone controls depending women
Anything can be used for or against the welfare of women - or the welfare of anyone - depending on who controls it.