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Gloria Steinem, Introduction to Wonder Woman 1972, as quoted in Wonder Woman: Bondage and Feminism in the Marston/Peter comics, 1941-1948 p. 94 by Noah Berlatsky
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[Wonder Woman's] creator has...seen straight into my heart and understood the secret fears of violence hidden there. No longer did I have to pretend to like the "pow!" and "Crunch" style of Captain Marvel or the Green Hornet. No longer did I have nightmares after reading ghoulish comics filled with torture and mayhem, comics made all the more terrifying by their real-life setting in World War II....Here was a heroic person who might conquer with force, but only a force that was tempered by love and justice.

— Gloria Steinem on Wonder Woman

What It Means

This is a placeholder explanation generated by the low-overhead model. It interprets "[Wonder Woman's] creator has...seen straight into my heart and understood the secret fears of violence hidden there. No longer did I have to pretend to like the "pow!" and "Crunch" style of Captain Marvel or the Green Hornet. No longer did I have nightmares after reading ghoulish comics filled with torture and mayhem, comics made all the more terrifying by their real-life setting in World War II....Here was a heroic person who might conquer with force, but only a force that was tempered by love and justice." in the context of "Gloria Steinem, Introduction to Wonder Woman 1972, as quoted in Wonder Woman: Bondage and Feminism in the Marston/Peter comics, 1941-1948 p. 94 by Noah Berlatsky" to mean that wisdom is timeless.

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Gloria Steinem

About Gloria Steinem

Gloria Marie Steinem (born March 25, 1934) is an American feminist, journalist, and social and political activist who became nationally recognized as a leader of, and media spokeswoman for, the women's liberation movement in the late 1960s and 1970s. A prominent writer and key counterculture era political figure, Steinem has founded many organizations and projects and has been the recipient of many awards and honors. She is a former columnist for New York magazine and co-founded Ms. magazine.