Gloria Steinem — "Laughter is the only free emotion—the only one that can't be compelled. We can b…"
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, when we suddenly see a new reality... laughter is an orgasm of the mind.
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American second-wave feminist organizer, journalist, and Ms. magazine co-founder who shaped 1970s feminist politics.
Closely associated with
Betty Friedan (The Feminine Mystique author) and Bella Abzug (feminist Congresswoman).
For an intellectual contrast, see
Phyllis Schlafly, conservative activist and Eagle Forum founder — Schlafly's grassroots STOP-ERA campaign defeated the Equal Rights Amendment Steinem championed — they were the public faces of the 1970s gender debate from opposite sides.
