Gloria Steinem
Gloria Marie Steinem is an American journalist, writer, essayist, editor, reporter, lecturer, and social-political activist, born on 25 March 1934 in Toledo, Ohio.
Steinem attended Waite High School before going on to study at Smith College, where she later received the Smith College Medal. She emerged as a nationally recognized leader of second-wave feminism in the United States in the late 1960s and early 1970s, working across multiple roles as a women's rights activist, human rights defender, and political activist throughout her career.
Her contributions across journalism, writing, and advocacy have been recognized through a substantial range of honors. She received the Radcliffe Medal, the Humanist of the Year award, the Library of Congress Living Legend designation, and the Women's Caucus for Art Lifetime Achievement Award. She was also named to BBC 100 Women and received the Princess of Asturias Award for Communications and Humanities. In addition, she was inducted into both the National Women's Hall of Fame and the Ohio Women's Hall of Fame, the latter reflecting her origins in Toledo.
Throughout her public life, Steinem has worked in English as a writer and communicator, and her career has remained consistently associated with the feminism movement. Her roles as reporter, editor, essayist, and lecturer have all been oriented around the concerns of women's rights and human rights more broadly, and the Princess of Asturias Award for Communications and Humanities stands as one of the more recent formal acknowledgments of her sustained work across those intersecting fields.
Quotes by Gloria Steinem
Gloria Steinem's insights on:
The moment we find the true reason for some feeling that has an irrationally powerful hold over us, whether it has to do with body image or anything else, the spell is broken.
Any woman who chooses to behave like a full human being should be warned that the armies of the status quo will treat her as something of a dirty joke. That's their natural and first weapon.
We've begun to raise daughters more like sons, but few have the courage to raise our sons more like our daughters.
Whenever one person stands up and says, ‘Wait a minute, this is wrong,’ it helps other people do the same.
Perhaps we share stories in much the same spirit that explorers share maps, hoping to speed each other's journey, but knowing that the journey we make will be our own.
I'm not sure feminism should require an adjective. Believing in the full social, political, and economic quality of women, which is what the dictionary says “feminism†means, is enough to make a revolution in itself.
Burnout is a way of telling you that your form of activism was perhaps not very full circle.
Without leaps of imagination or dreaming, we lose the excitement of possibilities. Dreaming, after all, is a form of planning.
Women are always saying, 'We can do anything that men can do.' But men should be saying, 'We can do anything that women can do.'