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A review by nikshelby
My Life on the Road by Gloria Steinem
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Gloria Steinem is a brilliant woman, and an excellent writer.
>>> "In truth, we don't know which of our acts in the present will shape the future. But we have to behave as if everything we do matters. Because it might."
>>> Native Elders "You cannot think yourself into right living. You live yourself into right thinking."
>>> "It is said that the biggest determination of our lives is whether we see the world as welcoming or hostile. Each becomes a self-fulfilling prophecy."
>>> "We learn most where we know the least."
>>> "A writer's greatest reward is naming something unnamed that many people are feeling. A writer's greatest punishment is being misunderstood. The same words can do both. I thought of the wisdom of Flo Kennedy. She found value in conflict, no matter what. "The purpose of ass-kicking is not that your ass gets kicked at the right time or for the right reason. It's to keep your ass sensitive." Remembering her words made me laugh out loud."
>>> "For some, religion was just a form of politics you couldn't criticize."
>>> Novelist Margaret Atwood wrote to explain women's absence from quest-for-identity novels, "there's a probably simple reason for this: send a woman out alone on a rambling nocturnal quest and she's likely to end up a lot deader a lot sooner than a man would."
>>> "If everyone has a full circle of human qualities to complete, then progress lies in the direction we haven't been."
>>> "This was the practical organizing wisdom they taught me: If you want people to listen to you, you have to listen to them. If you hope people will change how they live; you have to know how they live. If you want people to see you, you have to sit down with them eye-to-eye."
>>> "i was traveling and making the discovery that ordinary people are smart, and smart people are ordinary, decisions are best made by the people affected by them, and human beings have an almost infinite capacity for adapting to the expectations around us - which is both the good and the bad news...That's why, if I had to name the most important discovery of my life, it would be the portable community of talking circles; groups that gather with all five senses, and allow consciousness to change. They taught me to talk as well as listen...It just took me awhile to discover that both {solitary and communal} can happen wherever you are."
>>> "All I can say years later is: if you find yourself drawn to something against all logic, go. The universe it telling you something."
>>> "They were complete unto themselves, as in the line from one of Alice Walker's poems in Revolutionary Petunias: Blooming Gloriously for its Self."
>>> "Soon we discovered the intensity of interest in the simple idea that each person's shared humanity and individual uniqueness far outweighed any label by group of birth, whether sex, race, class, sexuality, ethnicity, religious heritage, or anything else."
>>> "In truth, we don't know which of our acts in the present will shape the future. But we have to behave as if everything we do matters. Because it might."
>>> Native Elders "You cannot think yourself into right living. You live yourself into right thinking."
>>> "It is said that the biggest determination of our lives is whether we see the world as welcoming or hostile. Each becomes a self-fulfilling prophecy."
>>> "We learn most where we know the least."
>>> "A writer's greatest reward is naming something unnamed that many people are feeling. A writer's greatest punishment is being misunderstood. The same words can do both. I thought of the wisdom of Flo Kennedy. She found value in conflict, no matter what. "The purpose of ass-kicking is not that your ass gets kicked at the right time or for the right reason. It's to keep your ass sensitive." Remembering her words made me laugh out loud."
>>> "For some, religion was just a form of politics you couldn't criticize."
>>> Novelist Margaret Atwood wrote to explain women's absence from quest-for-identity novels, "there's a probably simple reason for this: send a woman out alone on a rambling nocturnal quest and she's likely to end up a lot deader a lot sooner than a man would."
>>> "If everyone has a full circle of human qualities to complete, then progress lies in the direction we haven't been."
>>> "This was the practical organizing wisdom they taught me: If you want people to listen to you, you have to listen to them. If you hope people will change how they live; you have to know how they live. If you want people to see you, you have to sit down with them eye-to-eye."
>>> "i was traveling and making the discovery that ordinary people are smart, and smart people are ordinary, decisions are best made by the people affected by them, and human beings have an almost infinite capacity for adapting to the expectations around us - which is both the good and the bad news...That's why, if I had to name the most important discovery of my life, it would be the portable community of talking circles; groups that gather with all five senses, and allow consciousness to change. They taught me to talk as well as listen...It just took me awhile to discover that both {solitary and communal} can happen wherever you are."
>>> "All I can say years later is: if you find yourself drawn to something against all logic, go. The universe it telling you something."
>>> "They were complete unto themselves, as in the line from one of Alice Walker's poems in Revolutionary Petunias: Blooming Gloriously for its Self."
>>> "Soon we discovered the intensity of interest in the simple idea that each person's shared humanity and individual uniqueness far outweighed any label by group of birth, whether sex, race, class, sexuality, ethnicity, religious heritage, or anything else."