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Gloria Marie Steinem is an American feminist, journalist, and social political activist who became nationally recognized as a leader and a spokeswoman for the American feminist movement in the late 1960s and early 1970s.Steinem was a columnist for New York magazine, and a co-founder of Ms. magazine. In 1969, Steinem published an article, "After Black Power, Women's Liberation", which brought her to national fame as a feminist leader.



In 2005, Steinem, Jane Fonda, and Robin Morgan co-founded the Women's Media Center, an organization that "works to make women visible and powerful in the media".As of May 2018, Steinem traveled internationally as an organizer and lecturer, and was a media spokeswoman on issues of equality. Wikipedia  

✵ 25. March 1934  •  Other names قلوریا استاینم, ਗਲੋਰੀਆ ਸਟੀਨਮ
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Gloria Steinem Quotes

“No man can call himself liberal, or radical, or even a conservative advocate of fair play, if his work depends in any way on the unpaid or underpaid labor of women at home, or in the office.”

Gloria Steinem

“Happy or Unhappy, families are all mysterious.”

Gloria Steinem

“Always ask the turtle.”

Gloria Steinem

“If you want people to listen to you, you have to listen to them. If you hope people will change how they live, you have to know how they live. If you want people to see you, you have to sit down with them eye-to-eye.”

Gloria Steinem

Source: My Life on the Road

“no one ever got radicalized by being grateful”

Gloria Steinem

“Altogether, if I'd been looking at nothing but the media all these years, I would be a much more discouraged person-especially given the notion that only conflict is news, and that objectivity means being evenhandedly negative.”

Gloria Steinem

Source: My Life on the Road

“I began to see that for some, religion was just a form of politics you couldn’t criticize.”

Gloria Steinem

Source: My Life on the Road

“Her searches after knowledge were arbitrary and without context. It was as if she were shining a small flashlight of curiosity into the dark room of the world.”

Gloria Steinem

Source: Marilyn

“When the past dies, there is mourning, but when the future dies our imaginations are compelled to carry it on.”

Gloria Steinem

Source: Marilyn

“It’s said that the biggest determinant of our lives is whether we see the world as welcoming or hostile. Each becomes a self-fulfilling prophecy.”

Gloria Steinem

Source: My Life on the Road

“The road is messy in the way that real life is messy. It leads us out of denial and into reality, out of theory and into practice, out of caution and into action, out of statistics and into stories—in short, out of our heads and into our hearts.”

Gloria Steinem

Source: My Life on the Road

“Like the spider spinning its web, we create much of the outer world from within ourselves. The universe is a joint product of the observer and the observed.”

Gloria Steinem

Revolution From Within

“A woman needs a man like a fish needs a bicycle.”

Gloria Steinem

This quote was popularized by Steinem and is often attributed to her. However, the line was first coined by Australian educator Irina Dunn, as indicated at The Phrase Finder http://www.phrases.org.uk/meanings/414150.html <br class="br">Misattributed

“I’ve learned from these events that self-esteem plays as much a part in the destiny of nations as it does in the lives of individuals; that self-hatred leads to the need either to dominate or to be dominated; that citizens who refuse to obey anything but their own conscience can transform their countries; in short, that self-esteem is the basis of any real democracy.”

Gloria Steinem

Revolution From Within

“Citizens who refuse to obey anything but their own conscience can transform countries, it is the basis of any real democracy.”

Gloria Steinem

Revolution From Within

“I have met brave women who are exploring the outer edge of human possibility, with no history to guide them, and the courage to make themselves vulnerable that I find moving beyond words.”

Gloria Steinem

"Sisterhood" in New York Magazine (20 December 1971), p. 49

“God may be in the details, but the goddess is in the questions. Once we begin to ask them, there's no turning back.”

Gloria Steinem

Part 6 : Doing Sixty, p. 270
Moving Beyond Words (1994)

“Basically, I feel different from most other women. I feel I don’t have to put on an act. If I’m not feminine enough for someone, I don’t care, because femininity is different in everyone’s mind.”

Gloria Steinem

Moving Beyond Words (1994)

“I myself cried when I got angry, then became unable to explain why I was angry in the first place. Later I would discover this was endemic among female human beings. Anger is supposed to be "unfeminine" so we suppress it -until it overflows. I could see that not speaking up made my mother feel worse. This was my first hint of the truism that depression is anger turned inward; thus women are twice as likely to be depressed. My mother paid a high price for caring so much, yet being able to do so little about it. In this way, she led me toward am activist place where she herself could never go.”

Gloria Steinem

My Life on The Road

“Gender is the remaining caste system that still cuts deep enough, and spreads wide enough, to be confused with the laws of nature. To uncover the difference between what is and what could be, we may need the “Aha!” that comes from exchanging subject for object, the flash of recognition that starts with a smile, the moment of changed viewpoint that turns the world upside down.”

Gloria Steinem

Moving Beyond Words (1994)

“I think we each come out of the womb with some unique way of looking at the world and if we don't express it, we loose faith in ourselves.”

Gloria Steinem

Revolution From Within

“Artists strive to free this true and spontaneous self in their work. Creativity, meditation are ways of freeing an inner voice”

Gloria Steinem

Revolution From Within

“Erotica is as different from pornography as love is from rape, as dignity is from humiliation, as partnership is from slavery, as pleasure is from pain.”

Gloria Steinem

Erotica and Pornography: A Clear and Present Difference. Ms. November 1978, p. 53. & Pornography—Not Sex but the Obscene Use of Power. Ms. August 1977, p. 43. Both retrieved November 16, 2014.