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Gloria Steinem

Gloria Steinem

American feminist writer

Lived from: 1934 -

Category: Writers (Contemporary) Country: FlagUnited States

Born: 25 march 1934

  • I'm completely happy not having children. I mean, everybody does not have to live in the same way. And as somebody said, Everybody with a womb doesn't have to have a child any more than everybody with vocal cords has to be an opera singer.
  • If you ask men about their body image, they will tell you they look better than they do. And if you ask a woman, she'll tell you she looks worse.
  • 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.
  • I hope readers will consider, especially in this age of the World Wide Web, that as miraculous as it is, we still need to be in the same room with all five senses if we are to empathize with each other.
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  • Allowing women the power to decide when and whether to have children is the only way to solve the 7 billion human load on this planet that threatens to destroy it. Women's equality is also men's survival.
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  • A feminist is anyone who recognizes the equality and full humanity of women and men.
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  • I've yet to be on a campus where most women weren't worrying about some aspect of combining marriage, children, and a career. I've yet to find one where many men were worrying about the same thing.
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  • If we keep on talking about masculine and feminine and following those stereotypes, then we will make women suppress and despise their so called masculine qualities and men suppress and despise their so called feminine ones, and that's where all the trouble starts.
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  • If women are supposed to be less rational and more emotional at the beginning of our menstrual cycle when the female hormone is at its lowest level, then why isn't it logical to say that, in those few days, women behave the most like the way men behave all month long?
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  • If you ask men about their body image, they will tell you they look better than they do. And if you ask a woman, she'll tell you she looks worse.
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  • In a general way, anything that affects men is taken more seriously than anything that affects only women.
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  • Men should think twice before making widow hood woman's only path to power.
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  • Some of us are becoming the men we wanted to marry.
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  • Someone once asked me why women don't gamble as much as men do and I gave the commonsensical reply that we don't have as much money. That was a true but incomplete answer. In fact, women's total instinct for gambling is satisfied by marriage.
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  • The first problem for all of us, men and women, is not to learn, but to unlearn.
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  • The origins of violence against women by men are not biological. If that were the case, it would exist in every culture. And it doesn't exist in every culture.
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What are the most famous quotes from Gloria Steinem?

The two most famous quotes from Gloria Steinem are:

  • "Allowing women the power to decide when and whether to have children is the only way to solve the 7 billion human load on this planet that threatens to destroy it. Women's equality is also men's survival."
  • "A feminist is anyone who recognizes the equality and full humanity of women and men."

When did Gloria Steinem live?

Gloria Steinem was born in 1934.