For me writing is the only thing that passes the three tests of metier: (1) when I'm doing it I don't feel that I should be doing something else instead (2.) it produces a sense of accomplishment and once in a while pride and (3) it's frightening.

Gloria Steinem
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  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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