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Gloria Steinem
Gloria Steinem
American Activist
Born: Mar 25, 1934
Because Men People Woman Women You
Related authors: Angela Davis Cesar Chavez Elizabeth Cady Stanton Harriet Tubman Malcolm X Noam Chomsky Sojourner Truth Susan B. Anthony
Do women compete for the favours of men? Yes. They've spent 5,000 years competing. Gloria Steinem
Women Men Spent Favours Years Yes Compete Competing
Having one's traditional role questioned is not a very comfortable experience, perhaps especially for women, who have been able to remain children, and to benefit from work they did not and could not do. Gloria Steinem
Work Women Experience Benefit Able Having Remain Could Perhaps Comfortable Traditional Been Questioned Very Role Did Children Who
Even before Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton threw their exploratory committees into the ring, every reporter seemed to be asking, 'Which candidate are Americans more ready for: a white woman or a black man?' Gloria Steinem
Man Woman Black Before White Every Obama Ring Seemed Threw More Hillary Hillary Clinton Ready Clinton American Reporter Candidate Committees Which Barack Barack Obama Asking Even
The abolition and suffrage movements progressed when united and were damaged by division; we should remember that. Gloria Steinem
Remember Abolition Division Were Movements Should United Suffrage Damaged
A majority of Americans want redemption for racism - for our terrible, destructive racist past - and so see a vote for Obama as redemptive. Gloria Steinem
Vote Racism Past Our Destructive Obama See Majority Terrible Redemption American Want
Perhaps McCain has opposed affirmative action for so long that he doesn't know it's about inviting more people to meet standards, not lowering them. Gloria Steinem
People Long Action Meet About More More People He Inviting Perhaps Know Opposed Affirmative Affirmative Action McCain Them Lowering Standards
As long as working women also have to do the work of child and family care at home, they will have two jobs instead of one. Perhaps more important, children will grow up thinking that only women can be loving and nurturing, and men cannot. Gloria Steinem
Work Home Family Women Care Nurturing Will Men Long Important Thinking Jobs More Only Instead Perhaps Also Up Child Children Cannot Loving Working Grow Grow Up Two
I think Hefner himself wants to go down in history as a person of sophistication and glamour. But the last person I would want to go down in history as is Hugh Hefner. Gloria Steinem
History Down Think Would Glamour Sophistication Himself Go Person Hugh Want Wants Hefner Last
Fashion in the past meant conforming and losing oneself. Fashion in the present means being individual and finding oneself. Gloria Steinem
Fashion Losing Past Finding Oneself Individual Being In The Past Conforming Means Meant Present
The AIDS crisis has brought us a consciousness of the immune system as the most important health-maintenance element, and a consciousness of how it is under attack. Gloria Steinem
Important AIDS Crisis System Immune Brought Attack Most How The Most Important Us Element Consciousness
Gender is probably the most restricting force in American life. Gloria Steinem
Life Gender Restricting Most Force American American Life
When I had a fellowship at the Smithsonian, I asked for a couch in the office because I liked to lie down and take a break. Gloria Steinem
Lie Down Couch Take Had Liked Smithsonian Fellowship Because Office Break Asked
A movement is only composed of people moving. To feel its warmth and motion around us is the end as well as the means. Gloria Steinem
People Composed Only Feel Well Around Motion End Movement Moving Warmth Us Means
Childbirth is more admirable than conquest, more amazing than self-defense, and as courageous as either one. Gloria Steinem
Women Amazing Self-Defense Admirable More Courageous Than Childbirth Either Conquest
All those chemicals that create empathy only work when you are in a room together. Gloria Steinem
Work You Together Those Only Empathy Chemicals Room Create
Part of the reason that women go to college is to get out of the food service, clerical, pink-collar ghetto and into a more white-collar job. That does not necessarily mean they are being paid more than the blue-collar jobs men have. Gloria Steinem
Service Food Women Job College Men Ghetto Out Jobs More Part Clerical Does Go Than Get Blue-Collar Being Mean Paid White-Collar Reason Necessarily
Because women of color were more likely to be in the paid labor force, they were more likely to recognize discrimination, so they were always leading the women's movement. Gloria Steinem
Women Recognize More Color Leading Likely Force Because Always Were Labor Discrimination Movement Paid
Obviously, there is much similarity among the challenges of transgender people and all women - from health care to harassment to discrimination in the workplace. Gloria Steinem
Health Challenges Women People Care Transgender All Women Similarity Obviously Health Care Discrimination Much Harassment Workplace Among
Men are victims of their own impulses. Gloria Steinem
Men Own Impulses Victims
Most women are one man away from welfare. Gloria Steinem
Man Women Welfare One-Man Most Women Are Away
If technology and medicine are used by women to have children or not to have children or to have healthier children - that's one thing. But if it's used to say, 'You're not a real woman unless you have a child; therefore, take all these dangerous hormones and have one at 54,' then it's another story. Gloria Steinem
You Technology Woman Women Dangerous Medicine Unless Say One Thing Hormones Take Another Healthier Real Child Children Story Then Used Therefore Thing
We are still behaving as if a worker really doesn't have a family because the work pattern really was meant for men who really were the financial support but weren't looking after their families. We need to change this, and we can easily do that. Gloria Steinem
Work Family Change Financial Men Looking Easily Financial Support Support Because Still Were Families Behaving After Pattern Worker Really Meant Who Need
Logic is in the eye of the logician. Gloria Steinem
Eye Logic
It's an incredible con job when you think about it, to believe something now in exchange for something after death. Even corporations with their reward systems don't try to make it posthumous. Gloria Steinem
Death You Try Reward Job Believe Think Incredible Corporations Systems About Something Exchange Con Make After Even Now
Clearly no one knows what leadership has gone undiscovered in women of all races, and in black and other minority men. Gloria Steinem
Leadership Women Black Minority Men Gone Other All Races No-One Clearly Knows Undiscovered Races
Unless we include a job as part of every citizen's right to autonomy and personal fulfillment, women will continue to be vulnerable to someone else's idea of what need is. Gloria Steinem
Women Will Job Citizen Every Else Unless Someone Part Idea Vulnerable Continue Personal Autonomy Fulfillment Include Right Need
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