The Truth Will Set You Free, But First... - Gloria Steinem

Reflections

Rating: 7.5/10

By the authors own description, this is a collection of quotes on life, love and rebellion from her speeches and other written works.  Her hope is that they will be useful in arguments, comforting in bad times, inspirational when needed and even intended to induce laughter in our fraught times. I’ll share a few…

• We need to remember across generations that there is as much to learn as there is to teach.

• To write is too bring an inner voice into the outer world, to believe that our thoughts are worth entering the thinking of others, and to make real what has never existed in quite the same way before. 

•  Women have to learn how to talk as much as we listen. Men have to learn how to listen as much as they talk. 

•  There is no virtue in being on the same page if it’s the wrong page. 

Check it out for yourself and find your own choices to add meaning you might be searching for.

Fun Fact: the quote “if men could get pregnant, abortion would be a sacrament” came from a cab driver!! The profound is everywhere and in everyone if only we listen for it!