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Mead: "...whatever I write is, in a sense, an intrusion into [the] lives [of my family] and their own memories. Yet to ask each one of them to pass judgment on what I am writing would involve all of us in the curious unrealities of a committee approach to work without any of its rewards. The alternative has been to resolve the difficulties in my own mind as best I could."
— Apr 30, 2013 10:46PM
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Gloria Steinem: "I still don't understand why so many, many years passed before I saw my mother as a person and before I understood that many many of the forces in her life are patterns women share. Like a lot of daughters, I suppose I couldn't afford to admit that what had happened to my mother was not all personal or accidental, and therefore could happen to me."
— Aug 08, 2013 02:36PM
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Gloria Steinem: "Would you say, I asked one of her doctors, that her spirit had been broken? "I guess that's as good a diagnosis as any," he said. "And it's hard to mend anything that's been broken for twenty years." "
— Aug 08, 2013 02:31PM
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Gloria Steinem: "Pity takes distance and a certainty of surviving."
— Aug 08, 2013 02:28PM
Batgrl (Book Data Kept Elsewhere)
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Ok book you've been lovely and inspiring and moving, but I'm on the last chapter which is Gloria Steinem's essay about her mother - and it's a prime example of why I set books down at times, because it's supposed to be sad and personal and sometimes you just have to be in the right sort of mood for that. And yes, that last sentence does go on too long, sorry book.
— Aug 07, 2013 11:23AM
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Anna Louise Strong: "To fall in love is very easy, even to remain in it is not difficult; our human loneliness is cause enough. But it is a hard quest worth making to find a comrade through whose presence one becomes steadily the person one desires to be."
— Aug 04, 2013 08:29PM
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Margaret Sanger: "Before you had seen it, the Congress of the United States loomed impressively in your consciousness... Then you watched Congress at work, listened to it, and were disillusioned. A few years of sitting in the gallery and looking down gave you less respect for the quality of our representatives, less faith in legislative action..."
— Aug 04, 2013 06:51PM
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Margaret Sanger: "They do not comprehend it is still possible in these United States for a woman to milk six cows at five o'clock in the morning and bring a baby into the world at nine. The terrific hardships of the farm mother are not in the least degree lessened by maternity."
— Aug 04, 2013 06:44PM
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Margaret Sanger: "I defined a woman's duty, "To look the world in the face with a go-to-hell look in the eyes; to have an idea; to speak and act in defiance of convention." It was a marvelous time to say what we wished." - this was 1914, and that issue of her magazine Woman Rebel was declared "unmailable" by the US government.
— Aug 04, 2013 03:30PM
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Margaret Sanger finds that in France women had recipes handed down from generations past: "Some of the contraceptive formulas which had been handed down were almost as good as those of today. Although they had to make simple things, mothers prided themselves on their special recipes..."
— Aug 04, 2013 03:22PM
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Margaret Sanger: "I looked out my window and down upon the dimly lighted city. Its pains and griefs crowded in upon me, a moving picture rolled before my eyes with photographic clearness: women writhing in travail to bring forth little babies; the babies themselves naked and hungry, wrapped in newspapers to keep them from the cold..."
— Aug 04, 2013 03:19PM
