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Quotes by Gloria Steinem
Gloria Steinem, born on March 25, 1934, in Toledo, Ohio, is a renowned American feminist, journalist, and social-political activist whose work has profoundly shaped the landscape of women's rights. Co-founding the National Women’s Political Caucus and Ms. magazine, she has tirelessly advocated for gender equality and social justice. Steinem's compelling writings and public speaking have inspired generations, making her a pivotal figure in the feminist movement. Her legacy continues to resonate, symbolizing resilience and the relentless pursuit of equity for all.
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"Anger is energising. The opposite of anger is depression, which is anger turned inward."
Gloria Steinem
"We've begun to raise daughters more like sons... but few have the courage to raise our sons more like our daughters."
Gloria Steinem"Without leaps of imagination, or dreaming, we lose the excitement of possibilities. Dreaming, after all, is a form of planning."
Gloria Steinem"Nothing changes the gender equation more significantly than women's economic freedom."
Gloria Steinem"The future depends entirely on what each of us does every day; a movement is only people moving."
Gloria Steinem
"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
"Clearly no one knows what leadership has gone undiscovered in women of all races, and in black and other minority men."
Gloria Steinem
"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."
Gloria Steinem
"Power can be taken, but not given. The process of the taking is empowerment in itself."
Gloria Steinem
"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."
Gloria Steinem"A gender-equal society would be one where the word 'gender' does not exist: where everyone can be themselves."
Gloria Steinem"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."
Gloria Steinem"Women tend to be conservative in youth and get more radical as they get older because they lose power with age. So if a young woman is not a feminist, I say, 'Just wait.'"
Gloria Steinem
"Like art, revolutions come from combining what exists into what has never existed before."
Gloria Steinem
"The state of female artists is very good. But the very definition of art has been biased in that 'art' was what men did in a European tradition and 'crafts' were what women and natives did. But it's actually all the same."
Gloria Steinem