GLORIA STEINEM said

 "The truth will set you free but first it will piss you off." - Gloria Steinem

THE NEW YORKER : GLORIA STEINEM GAVE IT ALL  by Emma Watson

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I have always felt a strange protectiveness toward Gloria, which is absurd when you consider that Gloria Steinem has spent her life protecting the rest of us. She is one of the greatest heroines of the twentieth century.
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As the eclipse passes, I think about how quiet I have been for quite some time now, and I realize that something about that has to change, because if Gloria is leaving us, then some of us are going to have to get louder. It feels less like a decision than like a law of physics: I think of gravity, of black holes, of the way one body continues to exert a force on another across apparently empty space. I feel Gloria’s gravity still, pulling me toward the horizon and toward a world she could already envision.

She did not get to see it.

GLORIA STEINEM and the 50th ANNIVERSARY OF MS. MAGAZINE : FEMINISM IS STILL A FIGHT FOR EQUALITY

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I had a subscription to Ms. at one point in my life and have considered myself to be a feminist since I was a teenager - during which many students in my high school - male and female - mocked and ridiculed me.  

And Gloria is right that we must imagine something before we make it happen. I say, we must also be careful not to engage in thinking that thinking itself makes something happen.  

I've experienced sexism my entire life and still do. 

Sometimes I think that men, collectively, hate women.  I never forget that men hold the power on this earth and use it, and that they often use it against women.  Sadly, there are many women who cooperate with men against other women.  

C 2023  Christine Trzyna