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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The caste systems of sex and race are interdependent and can only be uprooted together.

Gloria Steinem

Perhaps McCain has opposed affirmative action for so long that he doesn't know it's about inviting more people to meet standards, not lowering them.

Gloria Steinem

There's a big gap between public opinion polls and the vote in Washington, in Congress.

Gloria Steinem

You know there is a person inside every baby, right? And anybody who has ever met a baby knows there is already a person in there.

Gloria Steinem

Actually, I believe there are more independents than either Republicans or Democrats, and yet those are the... that is the choice we have on the party ballot.

Gloria Steinem

What's so valuable about HBO is they tell stories. We learn from stories.

Gloria Steinem

When I had a fellowship at the Smithsonian, I asked for a couch in the office because I liked to lie down and take a break.

Gloria Steinem

I remember someone once asked Jack Kennedy why he was paying such close attention to the renovation of the square across from the White House, and he said, 'It may be the only thing my presidency is remembered for.'

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Even before Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton threw their exploratory committees into the ring, every reporter seemed to be asking, 'Which candidate are Americans more ready for: a white woman or a black man?'

Gloria Steinem

The mark, to me, of a constructive argument is one that looks at a specific problem and says, 'What shall we do about this?' And a nonconstructive one is one that tries to label people.

Gloria Steinem

The AIDS crisis has brought us a consciousness of the immune system as the most important health-maintenance element, and a consciousness of how it is under attack.

Gloria Steinem

What happens at 50, more or less, you lose what you need to create another person, to sustain another person; you keep what you need to sustain yourself. And there's something wonderful about that.

Gloria Steinem

Women may be the one group that grows more radical with age.

Gloria Steinem

The truth will set you free, but first it will piss you off.

Gloria Steinem

The art of life is not controlling what happens to us, but using what happens to us

Gloria Steinem

Men should think twice before making widowhood women's only path to power.

Gloria Steinem

Dying seems less sad than having lived too little.

Gloria Steinem

A feminist is anyone who recognizes the equality and full humanity of women and men.

Gloria Steinem

Any woman who chooses to behave like a full human being should be warned that the armies of the status quo will treat her as something of a dirty joke . . . She will need her sisterhood.

Gloria Steinem

This is no simple reform. It really is a revolution. Sex and race because they are easy and visible differences have been the primary ways of organizing human beings into superior and inferior groups and into the cheap labor on which this system stil...

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In retrospect, perhaps the biggest reason my mother was cared for but not helped for twenty years was the simplest: Her functioning was not that necessary to the world.

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