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41 " Women are always better liked if we sacrifice ourselves for something bigger - and something bigger always means including men, even though something bigger for men doesn't usually mean including women. "
― Gloria Steinem , My Life on the Road
42 " In the same way that individual women are often underestimated, a movement of women is also understimated, but the truth is that, if people realize someone is willing to talk about these deep and daily concerns, they show up. "
43 " Inside, each of us has a purple motorcycle. "
― Gloria Steinem
44 " I also noticed that humor was even more of a survival tactic here than in most women's groups. As one asked: What did Columbus call primitive? Answer: Equal women. "
45 " It's time to leave. There is so much out there to do and say and listen to. I can go on the road, because I can come home. I come home, because I am free to leave. "
46 " Despite all their faults, campaigns are based on the fact that every vote counts, and therefore every person counts. As freestanding societies, they are more open than academia, more idealistic than corporations, more unifying than religions, and more accessible than government itself. "
47 " Sometimes I think the only real division into two is between people who divide everything into two and those who don't. "
48 " Long before all these divisions were opened between home and the road, betweens a woman's place and a man's world, humans followed the crops, the seasons, traveling with their families, our companions, animals, our tents. We built campfires and moved from place to place. This way of traveling is still in our cellular memory. Living things have evolved as travelers, Even migrating birds know that nature doesn't demand a choice between nesting and flight. "
49 " Dying seems less sad than having lived too little. "
50 " In Indian Country,” he says, “we have a different sense of time. I’m learning and you’re learning—and more will. "
51 " Without leaps of imagination or dreaming, we lose the excitement of possibilities. "
52 " I can go on the road - because I can come home. I come home - because I'm free to leave. Each way of being is more valued in the presence of the other. This balance between making camp and following the seasons is both very ancient and very new. We all need both. "
53 " I can go on the road - and I can come home. I come home - because I'm free to leave. Each way of being is more valued int he presence of the other. This balance between making camp and following the seasons is both very ancient and very new. We all need both. "
54 " I like to believe that the road is sharpening my mind and lengthening my life with surprise. "
55 " A journey - whether it's to the corner grocery or through life - is supposed to have a beginning, middle, and end, right? Well, the road is not like that at all. It's the very illogic and the juxtaposed differences of the road - combined with our search for meaning - that make travel so addictive. "
56 " I could leave—because I could return. I could return—because I knew adventure lay just beyond an open door. Instead of either/or, I discovered a whole world of and. "
57 " Each way of being is more valued in the presence of the other. This balance between making camp and following the seasons is both very ancient and very new. We all need both. "
58 " Even migrating birds know that nature doesn't demand a choice between nesting and flight. "
59 " Altogether, I can't imagine technology replacing bookstores completely, any more than movies about a country replace going there. "
60 " hate generalizes, love specifies "