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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Rich People plan for three generations Poor people plan for Saturday night

Gloria Steinem

In short, we would discover, as we should already, that logic is in the eye of the logician. (For instance, here's an idea for theorists and logicians: if women are supposed to be less rational and more emotional at the beginning of our menstrual cyc...

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Far too many people are looking for the right person, instead of trying to be the right person.

Gloria Steinem

Self-esteem isn't everything; it's just that there's nothing without it.

Gloria Steinem

The danger of the Internet is cocooning with the like-minded online - of sending an email or Twitter and confusing that with action - while the real corporate and military and government centers of power go right on.

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There is nothing more fundamental than the idea that the government does not have a right to decide when and whether we have children.

Gloria Steinem

Republicans may learn they can't appeal to right-wing patriarchs and most women at the same time.

Gloria Steinem

If I read the word 'problematize' one more time, I'm going to vomit.

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In a community center in India once, somebody said, 'Aren't you sorry you don't have children?' And I thought, 'If I answer truthfully, I will lose them,' because it was a very different culture and a different place. And then I thought, 'What's the ...

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A parking lot attendant who's a guy makes a lot more money than a child-care attendant who's a woman.

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This country can no longer afford to choose our leaders from a talent pool limited by sex, race, money, powerful fathers and paper degrees. It's time to take equal pride in breaking all the barriers.

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Power can be taken, but not given. The process of the taking is empowerment in itself.

Gloria Steinem

We'll never solve the feminization of power until we solve the masculinity of wealth.

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It's easier to blame the person with less power.

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The question of whether one has one's own political power or goes to work for someone else is not only a feminist question.

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I'd like to be played as a child by Natalie Wood. I'd have some romantic scenes as Audrey Hepburn and have gritty black-and-white scenes as Patricia Neal.

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What I've learned is that unless it's an emergency, like a fire or brain surgery, hierarchy is not necessary and may be damaging. If you have a hierarchy, you're repeating the strengths and weaknesses of one person without allowing for the accumulati...

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If you say, I'm for equal pay, that's a reform. But if you say. I'm a feminist, that's a transformation of society.

Gloria Steinem

A gender-equal society would be one where the word 'gender' does not exist: where everyone can be themselves.

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Society certainly encourages women to be victims in every way.

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If technology and medicine are used by women to have children or not to have children or to have healthier children - that's one thing. But if it's used to say, 'You're not a real woman unless you have a child; therefore, take all these dangerous hor...

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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