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18 de oct. de 2016 · Rees also presented a claim from the most likely creator of the saying under examination, Irina Dunn: She says she wrote it in at least two toilets in 1970, spinning it off from something in one of her textbooks— “Man without God is like a fish without a bicycle.”.
- Gloria Steinem
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- Gloria Steinem
Hace 5 días · A well-known feminist slogan coined in 1970 by the Australian filmmaker, social activist, and writer Irina Dunn (born 1948); according to her recollection, adapted from the phrase “A man needs God like a fish needs a bicycle” which she read in a philosophical text. [1]
“A woman needs a man like a fish needs a bicycle” is a feminist slogan, humorously expressing the view that a woman can live her life perfectly well without a man. Origin – the short version This feminist slogan has often been attributed to either Gloria Steinem but was in fact coined by Irina Dunn in 1970.
“A woman without a man is like a fish without a bicycle.” ― Irina Dunn tags: feminism , humour , misattributed-gloria-steinem
13 de mar. de 2017 · Through the 1960s, if you saw the phrase at all, you would have seen it as “a man without a woman is like a fish without a bicycle. But by 1970, an Australian university student, Irina Dunn, turned the phrase around. She wrote “A woman needs a man like a fish needs a bicycle,” on the doors of two public toilets in Sydney.
25 de mar. de 2014 · Here are 23 things Gloria has taught us: "A woman without a man is like a fish without a bicycle." "Without leaps of imagination, or dreaming, we lose the excitement of possibilities. Dreaming, after all, is a form of planning." "God may be in the details, but the goddess is in the questions.
Such movements produced the likes of Gloria Steinem who is most famous for saying, “A woman without a man is like a fish without a bicycle.” Women of that era were struggling for an identity of their own that did not include men.
