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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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.

Gloria Steinem

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.

Gloria Steinem

It's an incredible con job when you think about it, to believe something now in exchange for something after death. Even corporations with their reward systems don't try to make it posthumous.

Gloria Steinem

Everything about aging in my experience so far has been a plus. Except the death part!

Gloria Steinem

Without leaps of imagination, or dreaming, we lose the excitement of possibilities. Dreaming, after all, is a form of planning.

Gloria Steinem

Pop culture shapes our ideas of what is normal and what our dreams can be and what our roles are. Politics, of course, decides how the power and the money in the country is distributed. Both are equally important, and each affects the other.

Gloria Steinem

There's no shortage of great young activists.

Gloria Steinem

You can compel fear. You can even make someone feel they're in love if they're isolated and dependent for long enough. But laughter is free.

Gloria Steinem

The future depends entirely on what each of us does every day; a movement is only people moving.

Gloria Steinem

Planning ahead is a measure of class. The rich and even the middle class plan for future generations, but the poor can plan ahead only a few weeks or days.

Gloria Steinem

I have yet to hear a man ask for advice on how to combine marriage and a career.

Gloria Steinem

Diane Keaton is good for women in and of herself. She's smart and funny and real.

Gloria Steinem

God may be in the details, but the goddess is in the questions. Once we begin to ask them, there's no turning back.

Gloria Steinem

Monotheism makes me grouchy. I don't trust any religion that makes God look like one of the ruling class. I guess I'm a pagan or an animist.

Gloria Steinem

Clearly no one knows what leadership has gone undiscovered in women of all races, and in black and other minority men.

Gloria Steinem

Gender is probably the most restricting force in American life.

Gloria Steinem

I didn't go to school a full year until I was 11 or 12, so I lived in books. I really was an observer of life.

Gloria Steinem

I started out life as a writer, and writers write in part because they don't want to talk.

Gloria Steinem

Every social justice movement that I know of has come out of people sitting in small groups, telling their life stories, and discovering that other people have shared similar experiences.

Gloria Steinem

Feminism began to dawn on my brain belatedly in life.

Gloria Steinem

Feminism has never been about getting a job for one woman. It's about making life more fair for women everywhere. It's not about a piece of the existing pie; there are too many of us for that. It's about baking a new pie.

Gloria Steinem

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