Gloria Steinem, My Life On The Road Quotes
In Indian Country, ” he says, “we have a different sense of time. I’m learning and you’re learning—and more will.
I've noticed that great political leaders are energized by conflict. I'm energized by listening to people's stories and trying to figure out shared solutions. That's the work of an organizer.
Wherever I go, bookstores are still the closest thing to a town square.
For me, those weeks in Boston, with Wilma, became a lesson in her ability to be “of good mind, ” in her phrase, which also meant a people’s ability to survive.
Taking away the good is even more lethal than pointing out the bad.
It's important for someone who could play the game - and win - to say: 'the game isn't worth shit.
In fact, caucus, a word derived from the Algonquin languages, better reflected the layers of talking circles and the goal of consensus that were at the heart of governance.
Altogether, I can't imagine technology replacing bookstores completely, any more than movies about a country replace going there.
Even migrating birds know that nature doesn't demand a choice between nesting and flight.
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.
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.
If you find yourself drawn to an event against all logic, go. The universe is telling you something.
Sometimes I think the only real division into two is between people who divide everything into two and those who don't.
You should write about take no-shit women like me. Girls need to know they can break the rules" p.79
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.
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.
The idea that women are 'our own worst enemies' forces us to admit that we don't have the power to be, even if we wanted too.
Mrs. Greene made me understand the parallels between race and caste--- and how women's bodies were used to perpetuate both. Different prisons. Same key.
As feminism has changed academia by enlarging what is taught, academia has sometimes changed feminism.
My father did not have to trade dying alone for the joys of the road. My mother did not have to give up a journey of her own to have a home. Neither do I. Neither do you.
Don't write when you're angry and under deadline, with time to test it only on friends who know what you mean, not on strangers who don't.
When people ask me why I still have hope and energy after all these years, I always say: Because I travel.
As Robin Morgan wrote so wisely, "Hate generalizes, love specifies". Thats what makes going on the road so important. It definitely specifies.
Altogether, if I had to pick one place to hang out anywhere, from New York to Cape Town and Australia to Hong Kong, a bookstore would be it.
