Gloria Steinem’s insight in tweets

This is related to my post, Tweeting wisdom of the ages, attempting to debunk the notion that something less than 140 characters must be shallow. These are quotations from Gloria Steinem that would fit in tweets:

A liberated woman is one who has sex before marriage and a job after.

A woman reading Playboy feels a little like a Jew reading a Nazi manual.

Childbirth is more admirable than conquest, more amazing than self-defense, and as courageous as either one.

I have yet to hear a man ask for advice on how to combine marriage and a career.

Men should think twice before making widow hood woman’s only path to power.

Most American children suffer too much mother and too little father.

The first problem for all of us, men and women, is not to learn, but to unlearn.

Without leaps of imagination, or dreaming, we lose the excitement of possibilities. Dreaming, after all, is a form of planning.

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