Gloria Steinem Quotes About Lying

Quotes about: Lying

• 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.

  Gloria Steinem

  Art, Lying, Thinking

• If you have two groups of people and you say one is inferior to the other, which is a lie, then the only way to maintain the lie is through violence or the threat of violence.

  Gloria Steinem

  Lying, Two, People

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• This is what forty looks like. We've been lying so long, who would know?

  Gloria Steinem

  Lying, Long, Looks

  c.1974 Response when complimented by a reporter on not looking forty years old, quoted by Lisa Jardine in 'Still Angry After All These Years', in the SundayTimes,15 May1994.

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