Sometimes when I’m on a plane, as I often am, the weather is rough and we’re worried about going down. I think: If I hold the hand of the person next to me, I’ll be holding everyone’s hand. Like my dear friend, the late Wilma Mankiller, principal chief of the Cherokee Nation, I want to know: I’m going to the other side of the mountain.
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Gloria Steinem
Writer and feminist organiser
United States · b. 1934
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American journalist and organiser who co-founded Ms. magazine in 1972 and has been a leading figure in the women's movement since the late 1960s.
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I’ve had cancer three times, but never felt close to death except when I walked between parked cars on my street and a car sped past my nose.
As someone who left the world around me a little kinder and less hierarchical.
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