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101 " She acquired a lifetime aversion to the phrases bless your heart and poor dears. "
― Gloria Steinem , My Life on the Road
102 " Zaczęłam dostrzegać, że dla niektórych religia stanowi po prostu formę polityki, której nie wolno krytykować. "
103 " This is a crucial job of being an organizer. You leave a dark basement and try to explain to people in the sunshine what it's like to live down there. I've learned this is best done by bringing these different groups of people together. Those with extra money discover how much more satisfying it is to see talent and fairness grow then to see objects accumulate. Those without money learn the valuable lesson that money doesn't cure all woes. Instead, it may actually insulate and isolate. "
― Gloria Steinem
104 " Or perhaps it's "activist," but on environmental and economic problems, without understanding that pressuring women to have too many children is the biggest cause of environmental distress, and economic courses should start with reproduction, not just production. "
105 " Once we give up searching for approval we often find it easier to earn respect. "
106 " so whatever you want to do, just do it...Making a damn fool of yourself is absolutely essential. "
107 " You're always the person you were when you were born," she says impatiently. "You just keep finding new ways to express it. "
108 " Empathy is the most radical of human emotions. "
109 " I myself cried when I got angry, then became unable to explain why I was angry in the first place. Later I would discover this was endemic among female human beings. Anger is supposed to be "unfeminine" so we suppress it -until it overflows. I could see that not speaking up made my mother feel worse. This was my first hint of the truism that depression is anger turned inward; thus women are twice as likely to be depressed. My mother paid a high price for caring so much, yet being able to do so little about it. In this way, she led me toward am activist place where she herself could never go. "
110 " we are the women our parents warned us against, and we are proud "
111 " You should write about take no-shit women like me. Girls need to know they can break the rules" p.79 "
112 " The first problem for all of us, men and women, is not to learn but to unlearn. "
113 " Laughter is a rescue. p.204 "
114 " Women have two choices: Either she's a feminist or a masochist. "
115 " As Robin Morgan wrote so wisely, "Hate generalizes, love specifies". That's what makes going on the road so important. It definitely specifies. "
116 " One day an army of gray-haired women may quietly take over the Earth! "
117 " When humans are ranked instead of linked, everyone loses. "
118 " Women are always saying,"We can do anything that men can do." But Men should be saying,"We can do anything that women can do. "
119 " I do not like to write - I like to have written. "
120 " Decisions are best made by the people affected by them. "