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Gloria Steinem
Gloria Marie Steinem is an American journalist and social movement activist who emerged as a nationally recognized leader of second-wave feminism in the United States in the late 1960s and early 1970s, and who was particularly popular in the 1980s and early 1990s.
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Born 25 March 1934 · Q231178
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a loving, intelligent, terrorised woman who tried hard to clean our littered house whenever she emerged from her private world, but who could rarely be counted on to finish one task ... I was the mother and she was the child.
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2026· 6 entries
“is being told that no matter how hard I”
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“a loving, intelligent, terrorised woman who tried hard to clean our littered house whenever she emerged from her private world, but who could rarely be counted on to finish one task ... I was the mother and she was the child.”
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“a diversion from the widespread problems of sexual inequality.”
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Steinem, then 92, was interviewed as part of a New York Times essay asking about how it felt to reach 80
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“might help individual people... to become more the unique, valuable, loved and lovable person that they want to be.”
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2023· 2 entries
Awarded BBC 100 Women (2023).
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The Guardian: ‘Women who break rules intrigue me’: Michael Kors channels Gloria Steinem
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2022· 1 entry
The Guardian: What links David O Russell’s crime romp Amsterdam to Gloria Steinem and Bob Dylan?
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2021· 4 entries
Lead Stories rated the claim “Gloria Steinem made Comparison Between Abortions And Buying Guns” Unknown Author.
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Awarded Princess of Asturias Award for Communications and Humanities (2021).
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Steinem received the Princess of Asturias Award for Communication and Humanities
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USA Today rated the claim “Gloria Steinem wrote viral comparison of abortion and gun legislation” False.
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2020· 5 entries
The Guardian: The Glorias review – Gloria Steinem biopic is a laughably shoddy mess
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The Guardian: Gloria Steinem: ‘Go too far, or you’re not going far enough’
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Steinem co-wrote a letter with Mona Sinha to the editor of The New York Times, in which they opposed the elimination of civil rights protections for transgender healthcare by the Trump administration
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The Guardian: Gloria Steinem says TV drama of 1970s feminist history ‘ridiculous'
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Steinem was portrayed by Rose Byrne in the FX miniseries Mrs
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2019· 2 entries
The Guardian: Gloria Steinem meets Gloria Allred: ‘Donald Trump has made us woke’
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Steinem received an honorary degree from Yale University
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2018· 1 entry
The Guardian: Gloria Steinem gets behind a brand pays more than lip service to a cause | Rebecca Nicholson
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2017· 2 entries
The day after the inauguration of Donald Trump as president
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Steinem, in an interview with the British newspaper The Guardian, stood by her 1998 New York Times op-ed, but also said: "I wouldn't write the same thing now
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2016· 1 entry
Campaign: 2016 election.
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2015· 2 entries
International Women's Day for Disarmament thirty women, including two Nobel Peace laureates from 15 countries, linked arms with 10,000 Korean women, stationing themselves on both sides of the DMZ to urge a formal end to
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Gloria Steinem, alongside two Nobel Peace Laureates (Mairead Maguire of Northern Ireland and Leymah Gbowee of Liberia) and other prominent women peace activists, undertook a journey from the capital of North Korea, Pyong
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2014· 4 entries
Steinem and Gupta traveled through India to meet the country's young feminists, writers, and thought leaders
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Steinem appeared in season 6, episode 3, of the television show The Good Wife
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Steinem appeared in the CNN series The Sixties, in the season 1 episodes 1968 and The Times They Are-a-Changin'
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UN Women began its commemoration of the 20th anniversary of the Fourth World Conference on Women, and as part of that campaign Steinem (and others) spoke at the Apollo Theater in New York City
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2013· 3 entries
Steinem clarified her remarks on transgender people in an op-ed for The Advocate, writing that critics failed to consider that her 1977 essay was "written in the context of global protests against routine surgical assaul
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Steinem was a presenter at the "Chime For Change: The Sound Of Change Live" Concert at Twickenham Stadium in London, England
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Steinem was featured in the documentary MAKERS: Women Who Make America about the feminist movement
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2012· 1 entry
Awarded Humanist of the Year (2012).
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2011· 1 entry
Gloria: In Her Own Words, a documentary, first aired
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2010· 1 entry
Won Radcliffe Medal (2010).
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2008· 1 entry
Campaign: 2008 election.
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2005· 2 entries
Steinem, Jane Fonda, and Robin Morgan co-founded the Women's Media Center, an organization that "works to make women visible and powerful in the media
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Steinem appeared in season 2, episode 13 of The L Word
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2004· 4 entries
That "[the] idea that sexuality is only okay if it ends in reproduction oppresses women—whose health depends on separating sexuality from reproduction—as well as gay men and lesbians
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Campaign: 2004 election.
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Abortion will be criminalized in this country"
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“a danger to health and safety”
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2003· 1 entry
Steinem and Bale were married for only three years before he died of brain lymphoma on December 30, 2003, at age 62.
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2000· 2 entries
At age 66, Steinem married David Bale, father of actor Christian Bale
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Awarded Library of Congress Living Legend (2000).
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1998· 1 entry
Steinem published an op-ed in The New York Times ("Feminists and the Clinton Question") in which she claimed that Bill Clinton's alleged behavior did not constitute sexual harassment, although she did not actually challe
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1993· 2 entries
Awarded National Women's Hall of Fame (1993).
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And Rosilyn Heller co-produced an original TV movie for Lifetime, "Better Off Dead", which examined the parallel forces that both oppose abortion and support the death penalty
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1992· 1 entry
Steinem co-founded Choice USA, a non-profit organization that mobilizes and provides ongoing support to a younger generation that lobbies for reproductive choice
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1991· 1 entry
Steinem, along with prominent feminists Robin Morgan and Kate Millett, publicly opposed a U
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1986· 1 entry
Steinem was diagnosed with breast cancer in 1986 and trigeminal neuralgia in 1994.
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1985· 1 entry
Starring Kirstie Alley as Steinem
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1984· 1 entry
Steinem was arrested along with a number of members of Congress and civil rights activists for disorderly conduct outside the South African embassy while protesting against the South African apartheid system
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1983· 1 entry
Awarded Ohio Women's Hall of Fame (1983).
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1980· 1 entry
Awarded Women's Caucus for Art Lifetime Achievement Award (1980).
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1979· 2 entries
Steinem wrote the article on female genital mutilation that brought it into the American public's consciousness; the article "The International Crime of Female Genital Mutilation" was published in the March 1979 issue of
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“s consciousness; the article”
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1978· 1 entry
Steinem wrote a semi-satirical essay for Cosmopolitan titled "If Men Could Menstruate" in which she imagined a world where men menstruate instead of women
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1977· 1 entry
Steinem expressed disapproval that the heavily publicized sex reassignment surgery of tennis player Renée Richards had been in her opinion characterized as either a frightening look at what feminism could cause or as pro
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1976· 1 entry
The first women-only Passover seder was held in Esther M
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1974· 3 entries
“segundo Adriana de Araújo esta citação é de Heráclito;”
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“Law and justice are not always the same. When they aren't, destroying the law may be the first step toward changing it.”
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“Women may be the one group that grows more radical with age.”
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1972· 3 entries
Steinem became the first woman to speak at the National Press Club
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Ran as a delegate for Shirley Chisholm in New York, but lost
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Campaign: 1972 election.
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1971· 3 entries
Steinem was one of more than three hundred women who founded the National Women's Political Caucus (NWPC), including such notables as Bella Abzug, Betty Friedan, Shirley Chisholm, and Myrlie Evers-Williams
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Co-founded the Women's Action Alliance which, until 1997, provided support to a network of feminist activists and worked to advance feminist causes and legislation
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Co-founded the National Women's Political Caucus which provides training and support for women who seek elected and appointed offices in government
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1970· 1 entry
"What Would It Be Like If Women Win", Steinem wrote about same-sex marriage in the context of the "Utopian" future she envisioned, writing:
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1969· 2 entries
Covered an abortion speak-out for New York Magazine, which was held in a church basement in Greenwich Village, New York
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Steinem published an article, "After Black Power, Women's Liberation," which brought her national attention and positioned her as a feminist leader
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1968· 4 entries
Steinem was chosen to pitch the arguments to McGovern as to why he should enter the presidential race that year; he agreed, and Steinem "consecutively or simultaneously served as pamphlet writer, advance 'man', fund rais
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"still had been treated like a frivolous pariah by much of McGovern's campaign staff"
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Steinem signed the "Writers and Editors War Tax Protest" pledge, vowing to refuse tax payments in protest against the Vietnam War
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Campaign: 1968 election.
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1967· 1 entry
Steinem revealed in an interview with The New York Times that she worked full time from 1958 until 1962 at the Independent Research Service, which was largely financed by the CIA
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1965· 1 entry
Wrote for NBC-TV's weekly satirical revue, That Was The Week That Was (TW3), contributing a regular segment entitled "Surrealism in Everyday Life"
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1963· 2 entries
As "A Bunny's Tale", featured a photo of Steinem in Bunny uniform and detailed how women were treated at those clubs
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While working on an article for Huntington Hartford's Show magazine, Steinem was employed as a Playboy Bunny at the New York Playboy Club
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1960· 1 entry
Was hired by Warren Publishing as the first employee of Help
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1957· 1 entry
A decade before physicians in England could legally perform an abortion for any reason other than the health of the woman, took the considerable risk of referring for an abortion a twenty-two-year-old American on her way
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1934· 2 entries
Born 1934-03-25.
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In Toledo, Ohio, the daughter of Ruth (née Nuneviller) and Leo Steinem
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