Gloria Steinem
Writer and feminist organiser
Feeling you want someone else’s welfare as much and sometimes more than your own.
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Your heart walking around outside your body.
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Bicycle courier: it was literally dicing with death on a minute-to-minute basis for 12 hours a day. It was terrifying and exhausting.
An understanding that kindness is the answer.
Letting down the people I love.
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