Gloria Steinem

Date of Birth:

25-Mar-1934

Nationality:

United States

Profession:

Activist

Gloria Steinem became a freelance journalist after college and grew up and became involved with women's and women's movement. He has helped create both New York and Ms magazines, helped create the National Women's Caucus, and is the author of numerous books and articles During this time, Steinem's parents separated and he ended up taking care of his mother, Ruth, who was suffering from mental illness. Steinem spent six years living with his mother in a lighted home in Toledo before going to college. At Smith College, she studied government, which was not a natural choice for a woman at that time. It was clear at first that he did not want to follow the normal way of life of women in those days - getting married and becoming a mother. In 1971, Steinem joined other prominent women, such as Bella Abzug and Betty Friedan, in forming the National Political Women's League, which worked for women's issues. In 1986, Steinem faced a personal challenge when he was diagnosed with breast cancer. He was able to beat the disease with medication. That same year, Steinem auditioned for one of the most iconic American women in the book Marilyn: Norma Jean. He became a consulting editor at Ms magazine the following year after the book was sold to an Australian company.

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Gloria Steinem

Books by Gloria Steinem

QUOTES BY Gloria Steinem

“Without leaps of imagination or dreaming, we lose the excitement of possibilities. Dreaming, after all is a form of planning.”

“Once we give up searching for approval we often find it easier to earn respect.”

“We've begun to raise daughters more like sons... but few have the courage to raise our sons more like our daughters.”

“so whatever you want to do, just do it...Making a damn fool of yourself is absolutely essential.”

“Writing is the only thing that when I do it, I don't feel I should be doing something else.”

“You're always the person you were when you were born," she says impatiently. "You just keep finding new ways to express it.”

“Empathy is the most radical of human emotions.”

“A woman reading Playboy feels a little like a Jew reading a Nazi manual.”

“we are the women our parents warned us against, and we are proud”

“The first problem for all of us, men and women, is not to learn but to unlearn.”

“Far too many people are looking for the right person, instead of trying to be the right person.”