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The speaker says that missing regular schooling led to a life centered on reading and careful observation. The quote suggests books became a substitute for formal education and that watching people and life closely shaped the speaker's understanding.
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About Gloria Steinem
American journalist and social movement activist
Gloria Steinem is an American journalist and social movement activist who became a nationally recognized leader of second-wave feminism in the United States in the late 1960s and early 1970s. She remained especially prominent in the 1980s and early 1990s. Her work is closely tied to feminism and broader social activism, and she is known for helping bring those issues into national public view. On this site, she has 267 quotes.
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- “In a way, women are a psychic immigrant group.”Gloria Steinem
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Books by Gloria Steinem
Outrageous Acts and Everyday Rebellions
1983
Marilyn, Norma Jeane
1987
My life on the road
2015
Revolution from within
1992
Moving Beyond Words: Age, Rage, Sex, Power, Money, Muscles
1995