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Gloria Steinem Biography

Gloria Marie Steinem (born March 25, 1934) 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.

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There is always one true inner voice. Trust it.

Inner, Inner Voice, True, Trust, Truth, Voice

Women can be vivacious. We are allowed more varieties of facial expression and gestures. Men must be rocklike.

Allowed, Expression, Men, Vivacious

When I was little, I knew that I was not adopted, but I actually imagined and hoped that I was, and that my real parents were going to come get me. I was just too different from the rest of the family, so I lived in books and in my imagination.

Book, Family, Imagination, Lived, Real

A woman without a man is like a fish without a bicycle.

Bicycle, Fish, Funny Love, Heartbreak, Hilarious, Man

Only when women rebel against patriarchal standards does female muscle become more accepted.

Rebel, Female, Doe, Accepted, Become

. . . if young women have a problem, it's only that they think there's no problem.

Thinking, Youth, Problem, Women, Think

It was the first female-style revolution: no violence and we all went shopping.

Revolution, Shopping, Style, Violence, Wall

The problem is that America is still so racist - I guess it's hard to find another word for it - that they still, the press in general and many people, perceive only white women as feminists. They think black women are black.

America, Problem, Thinking, White, Women, Word

I never expected to be even busier at 81, and doing more of what I love, than when I was 30.

Busier, Expected, Love

We have to imagine change before we can begin to move toward it.

Begin, Change, Imagine, Moving, Toward

The voting booth is the only place that a pauper equals a billionaire, and any woman equals any man.

Billionaire, Booth, Equals, Men, Place, Voting

Intelligence without character is a dangerous thing.

Character, Dangerous, Dangerous Things, Intelligence, Thing

When the gender role starts to descend, boys get into the masculine box.

Box, Boys, Gender, Masculine, Role, Roles

For girls and women, storytelling has a double and triple importance. Because the stories of our lives have been marginalized and ignored by history, and often dismissed and treated as 'gossip' within our own cultures and families, female human beings are more likely to be discouraged from telling our stories and from listening to each other with seriousness.

Discouraged, Girl, Gossip, History, Human

I think of the future in two ways - survival plus moving forward. Under survival, I would put all the efforts to save the female half of the world from violence directed at us specifically because we are female.

Forward, Half, Moving, Survival, Thinking, Two

Every revolution begins as consciousness because some group of people has to imagine change. You have to have the idea of change or at least have a hope before you can proceed. And that stage goes very quickly because a contagion of consciousness is within your control. But when you get to the stage of institutional change, it becomes a much slower process.

Begins, Consciousness, Groups, Ideas, People, Revolution

If you say, I'm for equal pay, that's a reform. But if you say. I'm a feminist, that's a transformation of society.

Equal, Equal Pay, Feminist, Reform, Society, Transformation

We teach what we need to learn.

Inspirational, Learn, Needs, Teach, Teaching

Feminism isn't called the longest revolution for nothing.

Feminism, Longest, Nothing, Revolution

Women are not going to be equal outside the home until men are equal in it.

Equal, Feminist, Home, Men, Women

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