Laughter is the only free emotion - the only one that can't be compelled. We can be made to fear. We can even be made to believe we're in love because, if we're kept dependent and isolated for long enough, we bond in order to survive. But laughter explodes like an aha! It comes when the punch line changes everything that has gone before, when two opposites collide and make a third and when we suddenly see a new reality..laughter is an orgasm of the mind. . Gloria Steinem
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  2. Ur be the things I am wiser to know: Idleness, sorrow, a friend, and a foe. Four be the things I'd been better without: Love, curiosity, freckles, and doubt. Three be the things I shall never attain: Envy, content, and sufficient champagne. Three be the... - Dorothy Parker

  3. You had to know a person well to make them laugh like that. - Cassandra Clare

  4. You have a beautiful laugh. Like the promise of tomorrow. - Renee Ahdieh

  5. Life is worth living as long as there's a laugh in it. - L.m. Montgomery

More Quotes By Gloria Steinem
  1. Without leaps of imagination or dreaming, we lose the excitement of possibilities. Dreaming, after all is a form of planning.

  2. Rich People plan for three generations Poor people plan for Saturday night

  3. Men should think twice before making widowhood women's only path to power.

  4. Writing is the only thing that when I do it, I don't feel I should be doing something else.

  5. No wonder male religious leaders so often say that humans were born in sin–because we were born to female creatures. Only by obeying the rules of the patriarchy can we be reborn through men. No wonder priests and ministers in skirts sprinkle imitation birth fluid...

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