Quotes by Gloria Steinem

About Gloria Steinem:

Gloria Marie Steinem is an American feminist, journalist, and social and political activist who became nationally recognized as a leader and spokeswoman for the feminist movement in the late 1960s and early 70s.
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Part of the reason that women go to college is to get out of the food service, clerical, pink-collar ghetto and into a more white-collar job. That does not necessarily mean they are being paid more than the blue-collar jobs men have.

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'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 fas...

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Mama grizzlies mate later than other bears. They have two cubs instead of four. They wait four years - about twice as long as other bears - between having cubs. And after they're pregnant, if winter is hard or their health is not good or the food sup...

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Nothing changes the gender equation more significantly than women's economic freedom.

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Happy or unhappy, families are all mysterious. We have only to imagine how differently we would be described - and will be, after our deaths - by each of the family members who believe they know us.

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As long as working women also have to do the work of child and family care at home, they will have two jobs instead of one. Perhaps more important, children will grow up thinking that only women can be loving and nurturing, and men cannot.

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The thing about aging is all your old lovers, pretty much if they were really friends, become your family. It's great. You have those terrible feelings of possessiveness and uncertainty go out the window. You have what you shared. You know you would ...

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Perfect is boring: Beauty is irregular.

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We've begun to raise daughters more like sons... but few have the courage to raise our sons more like our daughters.

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It is more rewarding to watch money change the world than watch it accumulate.

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The first resistance to social change is to say it's not necessary.

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If the shoe doesn't fit, must we change the foot?

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The deepest change begins with men raising children as much as women do and women being equal actors in the world outside the home. There are many ways of supporting that, from something as simple as paid sick leave and flexible work hours to attribu...

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The electoral system is not where change starts - it usually starts in communities and from the bottom up - but it is where change can be stopped.

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There's nothing automatic about political change, about liberation.

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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.

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Obviously, there is much similarity among the challenges of transgender people and all women - from health care to harassment to discrimination in the workplace.

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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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No man can call himself liberal, or radical, or even a conservative advocate of fair play, if his work depends in any way on the unpaid or underpaid labor of women at home, or in the office.

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Hope is a very unruly emotion.

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I hope to live to 100. There is so much to do.

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Author Bio

  • NameGloria Steinem
  • DescriptionAmerican feminist and journalist
  • AliasesGloria Marie Steinem
  • BornDecember 30, 2003
  • CountryUnited States Of America
  • ProfessionJournalist; Writer; Reporter; Activist; Essayist; Editor; Lecturer
  • AwardsPresidential Medal Of Freedom; Humanist Of The Year; National Women's Hall Of Fame