https://wist.info Wish I'd Said That! Fri, 06 Nov 2026 23:54:09 +0000 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.1.4 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.1.4 https://wist.info/wp/wp-content/uploads/2016/06/little-w-little-box-60x60.jpg https://wist.info 32 32 43606282 https://wist.info/stone-i-f/33009/ https://wist.info/stone-i-f/33009/#respond Tue, 15 Mar 2016 19:06:53 +0000 Dave http://wist.info/?p=33009 When you are younger you get blamed for crimes you never committed and when you’re older you begin to get credit for virtues you never possessed. It evens itself out.

Isidor Feinstein "I. F." Stone (1907–1989) American investigative journalist and author
International Herald Tribune (16 Mar 1988) ]]> https://wist.info/stone-i-f/33009/feed/ 0 33009 https://wist.info/steinem-gloria/18472/ https://wist.info/steinem-gloria/18472/#respond Sat, 30 Jun 2012 17:58:30 +0000 Dave http://wist.info/?p=18472 The first problem for all of us, men and women, 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 embedded so deeply in our thinking that we honestly may not know that they are there.

Gloria Steinem (1934–2026) American feminist, journalist, activist
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