WIST Quotations https://wist.info Wish I'd Said That! Sun, 15 Nov 2026 00:13:35 +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 stereotypes – WIST Quotations https://wist.info 32 32 43606282 Steinem, Gloria -- Essay (1971-08-21), “A New Egalitarian Life Style,” New York Times 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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