My Life on the Road
Gloria Steinem
Top 10 Best Quotes
“You're always the person you were when you were born," she says impatiently. "You just keep finding new ways to express it.”
“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.”
“You should write about take no-shit women like me. Girls need to know they can break the rules" p.79”
“Laughter is a rescue. p.204”
“Sometimes I think the only real division into two is between people who divide everything into two and those who don't.”
“As Robin Morgan wrote so wisely, "Hate generalizes, love specifies". That's what makes going on the road so important. It definitely specifies.”
“When humans are ranked instead of linked, everyone loses.”
“Decisions are best made by the people affected by them.”
“If you find yourself drawn to an event against all logic, go. The universe is telling you something.”
“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.”
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