Gloria Steinem Quotes About Art
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The art of life is not controlling what happens to us, but using what happens to us
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If the men in the room would only think how they would feel graduating with a 'spinster of arts' degree they would see how important this is.
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Think about the pressure to "pass" by lying about one's agethat familiar temptation to falsify a condition of one's birth oridentity and pretend to be part of a more favored group. Fair-skinned blacks invented "passing" as a term, Jews escaping anti-Semitism perfected the art, and the sexual closet continues the punishment, but pretending to be a younger age is probably the most encouraged form of "passing," with the least organized support for "coming out" as one's true generational self.
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Like art, revolutions come from combining what exists into what has never existed before.
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Most art in the world does not have a capital 'A,' but is a way of turning everyday objects into personal expressions.
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The art of being helpful is behaving as if everything we do matters - because we never know which things might.
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I believe that art has incredible power.
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In art, women could never get training. They couldn't get their work out into the world even when they could get training.
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One of the things I understood from early on was that art was a symbol of systemic inequity.
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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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