Gloria Marie Steinem
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Gloria Steinem went undercover as a Playboy Bunny in 1963 for an investigative report. She founded Ms. magazine in 1972 and became a leading voice in the feminist movement. In 2013, President Barack Obama awarded her the Presidential Medal of Freedom.
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Gloria Marie Steinem was born on March 25, 1934 in Toledo, Ohio. Her paternal grandparents were Jewish emigrants from Germany and Poland, while her mother was of German and Scottish descent. She attended Waite High School in Toledo and later graduated from Western High School in Washington, D.C. Steinem then enrolled at Smith College, where she graduated magna cum laude and Phi Beta Kappa in 1956.
In 1963, at age 28, Steinem worked undercover as a Playboy Bunny in New York City for an exposé in Show magazine. She became a columnist for New York magazine and in 1972 founded Ms. magazine, a feminist publication. Steinem appeared as herself in films like The First Wives Club 1996 and V for Vendetta 2005, and guest-starred on TV shows such as The Good Wife 2009. She received the Presidential Medal of Freedom in 2013.
Steinem married David Bale in September 2000, becoming stepmother to his children, including actor Christian Bale. She had one sibling, Susanne Steinem Patch. She is lifelong friends with actress Marlo Thomas. She has no biological children.
Steinem founded Ms. magazine and advocated for gender equality. She was inducted into the National Women’s Hall of Fame in 1993 and received the Presidential Medal of Freedom in 2013. Her undercover reporting as a Playboy Bunny remains a landmark of investigative journalism, and she played a key role in restoring Wonder Woman’s powers in the 1970s.
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The Truth Will Set You Free…but First It Will Piss You Off.
A Woman Needs a Man Like a Fish Needs a Bicycle
We Badly Need to Raise Our Boys More Like Our Girls.
Without Leaps of Imagination, or Dreaming, We Lose the Excitement of Possibilities. Dreamin, After All, Is a Form of Planning.
A Woman Reading Playboy Is Like a Jew Reading Hitler’s Mein Kampf.
Men Should Think Twice Before Making Widowhood Woman’s Only Path to Power.
Politics Is Just Unequal Power. Who Does the Dishes Is Political. in the Politics of Commerciality, If You Want to Put It That Way, the Way Women’s Bodies Are Looked At, We’re Supposed to Be Ornaments Not Instruments.
We Have to Be Careful Not to Have Terminal Gratitude, as I Think of It. We Need to Be Always Looking Forward. Nothing in Inexorable. Nothing. It Depends on What You Do and I Do Every Day, All of Us Here, Every Day. It Depends on the Language We Use with Each Other. It Depends on Whether We Tell Each Other Our Salaries, to Find Out Who’s Not Getting Paid. All These Movements Are Inextricably Connected.
Listen, Honey, If Men Could Get Pregnant, Abortion Would Be a Sacrament.
I’m Completely Happy Not Having Children. I Mean, Everybody Does Not Have to Live in the Same Way. and as Somebody Said, Everybody with a Womb Doesn’t Have to Have a Child Any More Than Everybody with Vocal Chords Has to Be an Opera Singer..
If You Poured Water on a Great Poem, You Would Get a Novel.
I Believe That Transgender People, Including Those Who Have Transitioned, Are Living Out Real, Authentic Lives. Those Lives Should Be Celebrated, Not Questioned. Their Health Care Decisions Should Be Theirs and Theirs Alone to Make.
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At age 28 in 1963, she worked as a Playboy Bunny in the New York club for an undercover investigative report for Show magazine, using the pseudonym Marie Catherine Ochs for 11 days.
She is honorary chairperson of Democratic Socialists of America.
As an admirer of Wonder Woman, she led protests in the late 1960s and 1970s when the character lost her powers, and put Wonder Woman on the cover of Ms. magazine, helping restore her powers.
She was a columnist for New York magazine and founder of Ms. magazine.
When she married David Bale in September 2000, she became stepmother to Christian Bale, Sharon Bale, Erin Bale, and Louise Bale.
President Barack Obama awarded her the Presidential Medal of Freedom on November 20, 2013.
She earned her Bachelor of Arts magna cum laude and Phi Beta Kappa from Smith College in 1956.
Her paternal grandparents were Jewish emigrants from Germany and Poland; her mother was of German and Scottish descent.
She protested the film The People vs. Larry Flynt 1996, comparing pornography’s effect to the Holocaust.
Named one of People magazine’s 50 Most Beautiful People in the World.
Has received honorary degrees from many institutions including Smith College, Columbia University, and Washington University.
Inducted into the Ohio Women’s Hall of Fame in 1983 and the National Women’s Hall of Fame in 1993.
Was an employee of James Warren, publisher of Famous Monsters of Filmland.
Hates the Barbie fashion doll.
In 1995, she told ABC’s John Stossel that women make better firefighters because they lack upper body strength, keeping them away from smoke.
Attended Waite High School in Toledo and Western High School in Washington, D.C.
Lifelong friends with actress Marlo Thomas.
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