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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In my own mind, I am still a fat brunette from Toledo, and I always will be.

Gloria Steinem

The abolition and suffrage movements progressed when united and were damaged by division; we should remember that.

Gloria Steinem

Whatever each individual woman is facing - only she knows her biggest challenge.

Gloria Steinem

There are six million female lives lost in the world every year simply because they are female.

Gloria Steinem

We can tell our values by looking at our checkbook stubs.

Gloria Steinem

Law and justice are not always the same.

Gloria Steinem

If you hear a statistic, you will make up a story to go with it, because our brains are organized on narrative. And you may very well make up a wrong story because you only have one fact, which is a statistic.

Gloria Steinem

I keep thinking: 'Georgia O'Keeffe wouldn't have had Botox.'

Gloria Steinem

We must begin to shift the emphasis of teen-age pregnancy to teen-age boys.

Gloria Steinem

Liberation does not come from outside.

Gloria Steinem

Perfectionism attaches to what is valued in the culture.

Gloria Steinem

A bad facelift is like a bad toupee.

Gloria Steinem

A majority of Americans want redemption for racism - for our terrible, destructive racist past - and so see a vote for Obama as redemptive.

Gloria Steinem

Burnout is a way of telling you that your form of activism was perhaps not very full circle.

Gloria Steinem

Because we are communal creatures, if you're with people who think you're smart, you're smart, and if they think you're dumb, you're dumb.

Gloria Steinem

After feminism, I suddenly realised: not everyone has to live the same way. Imagine that!

Gloria Steinem

I always wanted to put a sign up on the road to Yale saying, 'Beware: Deconstruction Ahead.'

Gloria Steinem

As for the American child's classic problem - too much mother, too little father - that would be cured by an equalization of parental responsibility.

Gloria Steinem

Girls actually need superheroes much more than boys.

Gloria Steinem

Obviously there is no such thing as race, and in many ways, sex is a continuum, not a binary. So it doesn't make sense to label people in that way.

Gloria Steinem

I can say whatever it is that I feel.

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