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“... patriarchy creates megapatterns that affect us all--even as we forge different individual choices within them--just as do themegapatterns of nationalism or racism.”

Quote by Gloria Steinem

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Gloria Steinem is an American journalist and social activist, renowned for her leadership in the women's rights movement. Born on March 25, 1934, she was one of the founding editors of Ms. magazine and played a pivotal role in the women's liberation movement of the 1960s and 1970s. Steinem's work has covered a wide range of issues from gender equality to environmental justice. more

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“... the art of politics is to be ahead of your time--about six months will do it. Any more than that, and people forget you were there.”

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Author:Gloria Steinem

“In the U.S. for instance, the value of a homemaker's productive work has been imputed mostly when she was maimed or killed and insurance companies and/or the courts had to calculate the amount to pay her family in damages. Even at that, the rates were mostly pink collar and the big number was attributed to the husband's pain and suffering.”

Source: Moving Beyond Words: Essays on Age, Rage, Sex, Power, Money, Muscles: Breaking the Boundaries of Gender

“I've finally figured out why soap operas are, and logically should be, so popular with generations of housebound women. They are the only place in our culture where grown-up men take seriously all the things that grown-up women have to deal with all day long.”

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Author:Gloria Steinem

“Most clear writing is a sign that there is no exploration going on. Clear prose indicates the absence of thought.”

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Author:Marshall McLuhan

“Typography tended to alter language from a means of perception and exploration to a portable commodity.”

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Book:The Gutenberg Galaxy: The Making of Typographic Man

Source: The Gutenberg Galaxy: The Making of Typographic Man

“Primitivism has become the vulgar cliché of much modern art and speculation.”

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Book:The Gutenberg Galaxy

Source: The Gutenberg Galaxy

“I am a Christian according to my conscience in belief,in purpose and wish;Mnot of course by the orthodox standard. But I am content, and have a feeling of trust and safety. The Machiavellian mind and the merchant mind are at one in their simple faith in the power of segmental division to rule all--in the dichotomy of power and morals and of money and morals.”

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Author:Marshall McLuhan

“Current illusion is that science has abolished all natural laws.”

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Book:Letters of Marshall McLuhan

Source: Letters of Marshall McLuhan

“The family circle has widened. The worldpool of information fathered by the electric media--movies, Telstar, flight--far surpassesany possible influence mom and dad can now bring to bear. Character no longer is shaped by only two earnest, fumbling experts. Now all the world's a sage.”

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Book:The medium is the massage: an inventory of effects

Source: The medium is the massage: an inventory of effects

“The circuited city of the future will not be the huge hunk of concentrated real estate created by the railway. It will take on a totally new meaning under conditions of very rapid movement. It will be an information megalopolis.”

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Book:The medium is the massage: an inventory of effects

Source: The medium is the massage: an inventory of effects