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Gloria Steinem is an American journalist and social activist, renowned for her leadership in the women's rights movement. Born on March 25, 1934, she was one of the founding editors of Ms. magazine and played a pivotal role in the women's liberation movement of the 1960s and 1970s. Steinem's work has covered a wide range of issues from gender equality to environmental justice.

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Famous Gloria Steinem Quotes

“Now, we've made the revolutionary discovery that children have two parents. A decade ago even the kindly Dr. Spock held mothers solely responsible for children.”

Children Made Two Mother Parent Discovery Responsible Decades Revolutionary Drs

Book:Outrageous acts and everyday rebellions

Source: Outrageous acts and everyday rebellions

“The father who raises a son to have a profession he once dreamed of, and the mother who uses her daughter as the adult companion her husband is not; the parents who urge their children into accomplishments as status symbols-all these and many more are ways of subordinating a child's authentic self to a parent s needs.”

Source: Revolution from Within: A Book of Self-Esteem

“If you let Barnum & Bailey interpret a plot by Stendahl, it might come out to be something like the 1972 Democratic convention.”

Ifs Might Politician Democratic Plot Conventions

Author:Gloria Steinem

“Women are never again going to be mindless coffee-makers or mindless policy-makers in politics.”

Policy Politician Coffee Makers Mindless Policy Makers

Author:Gloria Steinem

“Though both erotica and pornography refer to verbal or pictorial representations of sexual behavior, they are as different as a room with doors open and one with doors locked. The first might be a home, but the second could only be a prison.”

Firsts Different Home Might Rooms Doors Behavior Prison Locked Representation Pornography Pictorial

Book:Outrageous acts and everyday rebellions

Source: Outrageous acts and everyday rebellions

“Paradoxically, only journeying backward in time and reentering the home we once knew allows us to go forward to the home we've always wanted.”

Home Wanted Psychoanalysis

Book:Revolution from Within: A Book of Self-Esteem

Source: Revolution from Within: A Book of Self-Esteem

“Prejudice marks a mental landmine.”

Prejudice Mark Landmines

Book:Moving Beyond Words: Essays on Age, Rage, Sex, Power, Money, Muscles: Breaking the Boundaries of Gender

Source: Moving Beyond Words: Essays on Age, Rage, Sex, Power, Money, Muscles: Breaking the Boundaries of Gender

“Our children are the only people on whom we can safely take revenge for what was done to us.”

People Children Done Our Children Revenge

Book:Revolution from Within: A Book of Self-Esteem

Source: Revolution from Within: A Book of Self-Esteem

“A rejection of the way a woman speaks is often a way of blaming or dismissing her without dealing with the content of what she is saying.”

Way Speak Blame Rejection

Book:Outrageous acts and everyday rebellions

Source: Outrageous acts and everyday rebellions

“Obviously, untangling sex from aggression and violence or the threat of it is going to take a very long time. And the process is going to be greatly resisted as a challenge to the very heart of male dominance and male centrality.”

Heart Long Sex Process Challenges Violence Long Time Threat Males Aggression Dominance Male Dominance Aggression And Violence

Book:Outrageous acts and everyday rebellions

Source: Outrageous acts and everyday rebellions

“The uncomfortable truth seems to be that the amount of talk by women has been measured less against the amount of men's talk than against the expectation of female silence.”

Men Has Beens Seems Silence Amount Expectations Female Uncomfortable

Book:Outrageous acts and everyday rebellions

Source: Outrageous acts and everyday rebellions

“Perhaps well-to-do women and unemployed ghetto teenagers have something in common. Neither group has been allowed to develop the self-confidence that comes from knowing you can support yourselves.”

Wells Has Beens Self Common Support Knowing Groups Self Confidence Teenager Ghetto Unemployed

Author:Gloria Steinem

“Perhaps the worst thing about suffering is that it finally hardens the hearts of those around it.”

Heart Suffering Worst Worst Things

Book:Outrageous acts and everyday rebellions

Source: Outrageous acts and everyday rebellions

“I'm still the same person who grew up mostly in a Midwestern, factory-working neighborhood where talk about "self-esteem" would have seemed like a luxury.”

Persons Stills Self Self Esteem Grew Grew Up Esteem Luxury Neighborhood Factories

Book:Revolution from Within: A Book of Self-Esteem

Source: Revolution from Within: A Book of Self-Esteem

“Anyone who has ever experienced dehumanized life on welfare or any other confidence-shaking dependency knows that a paid job may be preferable to the dole, even when the handout is coming from a family member.”

Knows May Jobs Members Paid Welfare Unemployment Shaking Family Members Dependency Handouts

Book:Outrageous acts and everyday rebellions

Source: Outrageous acts and everyday rebellions

“Many ideas have been transformed by adding one crucial adjective-women's bank, women's music, women's studies, women's caucus. That adjective did more than change a phrase. It implied a lot of new content: child care, flexible work hours, new standards of creditworthiness, new symbolism, new lyrics.”

Children Has Beens Ideas Care Hours Study Standards Phrases Crucial Transformed Flexible Symbolism Adjectives Implied Child Care Caucus

Author:Gloria Steinem

“Before feminism, work was largely defined as what men did or would do. Thus, a working woman was someone who labored outside the home for money, masculine-style.”

Men Home Work Feminism Style Defined Masculine Working Women

Book:Outrageous acts and everyday rebellions

Source: Outrageous acts and everyday rebellions

“Pornography is about dominance. Erotica is about mutuality.”

Pornography Dominance

Author:Gloria Steinem

“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 labour on which this system still depends.”

Way Humans Has Beens Stills Sex Easy Differences Human Beings Race Groups Depends Superiors Primaries Visible Labour Womens Rights Inferiors Women Rights Human Equality Women's Education

Author:Gloria Steinem

“I can't mate in captivity.”

I Can Sex Mates Captivity

Author:Gloria Steinem

About the Author

Born: March 25, 1934
Known for: Journalist
Quotes: 620

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Outrageous acts and everyday rebellionsRelated source material

My Life on the RoadRelated source material

Revolution from Within: A Book of Self-EsteemRelated source material

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Moving Beyond Words: Essays on Age, Rage, Sex, Power, Money, Muscles: Breaking the Boundaries of GenderRelated source material

Passion, Politics, and Everyday Activism: Collected Essays: Moving Beyond Words; Outrageous Acts and Everyday Rebellions; and Revolution from WithinRelated source material

Moving Beyond Words: Age, Rage, Sex, Power, Money, Muscles: Breaking Boundaries of GenderRelated source material

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