Gloria Steinem Quotes About Past
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Women have always been an equal part of the past. We just havent been a part of history.
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Proust's tea cake has nothing on one hour in a college dorm.
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The first problem for all of us, men and woman, is not to learn, but to unlearn. We are filled with the popular wisdom of several centuries just past, and we are terrified to give it up. Patriotism means obedience, age means wisdom, woman means submission, black means inferior: these are preconceptions imbedded so deeply in our thinking that we honestly may not know that they are there.
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When the past dies, there is mourning, but when the future dies our imaginations are compelled to carry it on.
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There were never that many women stand-up comics in the past because the power to make people laugh is also a power that gets people upset.
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I'm not sure that it's up to me to sum up what I've done with it in the past. I'm not sure there's a way of knowing what we have done that is useful or important.
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Gratitude never radicalized anybody. I don't care if they recognize the past, I just want them to get angry about the present and keep going.
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Clinging to the past is the problem. Embracing change is the answer.
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