Gloria Steinem

(1934–) · American Activist

American journalist and social-political activist who emerged as a nationally recognized leader of second-wave feminism in the United States in the late 1960s and early 1970s.

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Gloria Steinem

(1934–) · American Activist

American journalist and social-political activist who emerged as a nationally recognized leader of second-wave feminism in the United States in the late 1960s and early 1970s.

Without leaps of imagination, or dreaming, we lose the excitement of possibilities. Dreaming, after all, is a form of planning.
Because I have work to care about, it is possible that I may be less difficult to get along with than other women when the double chins start to form.
A pedestal is as much a prison as any small, confined space.
Women tend to need the healthcare system more because we bear children. Insurance companies - not all of them, but many of them - 'gender-rate.' Women may pay 40% more for their health insurance than men do.
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.
The first resistance to social change is to say it's not necessary.
Obviously, there is much similarity among the challenges of transgender people and all women - from health care to harassment to discrimination in the workplace.
Most American children suffer too much mother and too little father.
Power can be taken, but not given. The process of the taking is empowerment in itself.
Age brings a freedom. When you're young, you're much more subject to the idea of what feminine is or how you should look or how you should behave.

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