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From the Ted Talk by Gloria Steinem: To future generations of women, you are the roots of change

Unscramble the Blue Letters


PM: I want to be the first to volunteer with you, Gloria, to start the talking circles and pissnag the talking sticks again. One of the surprising things that people who come into your presence are always surprised to find out what a great sense of homur you have. And one of my favorite bkoos of the many you have written sits by my bedside, and the title of it — forgive me those who might not like bad language — the title is "The Truth Will Set You Free, But First It Will Piss You Off!" So I'm wondering now what truth is sittneg you free and what continues to piss you off?

GS: Well, actually, right at this moment, I mean, the truth is COVID — you know, and we understand that is a uvrnsaiel experience and danger we're all delinag with, and what pisses me off is that we don't use that experience in the positive sense. In the ssnee that we learn from dangers as well as from accomplishments. It pisses me off that this is not used in a positive way to ocomvere the idea of categories of hamun beings or of national boundaries or of countries. I mean, we're all here on Spaceship Earth.

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PM: I want to be the first to volunteer with you, Gloria, to start the talking circles and _______ the talking sticks again. One of the surprising things that people who come into your presence are always surprised to find out what a great sense of _____ you have. And one of my favorite _____ of the many you have written sits by my bedside, and the title of it — forgive me those who might not like bad language — the title is "The Truth Will Set You Free, But First It Will Piss You Off!" So I'm wondering now what truth is _______ you free and what continues to piss you off?

GS: Well, actually, right at this moment, I mean, the truth is COVID — you know, and we understand that is a _________ experience and danger we're all _______ with, and what pisses me off is that we don't use that experience in the positive sense. In the _____ that we learn from dangers as well as from accomplishments. It pisses me off that this is not used in a positive way to ________ the idea of categories of _____ beings or of national boundaries or of countries. I mean, we're all here on Spaceship Earth.

Solution


  1. overcome
  2. books
  3. human
  4. humor
  5. universal
  6. setting
  7. passing
  8. dealing
  9. sense

Original Text


PM: I want to be the first to volunteer with you, Gloria, to start the talking circles and passing the talking sticks again. One of the surprising things that people who come into your presence are always surprised to find out what a great sense of humor you have. And one of my favorite books of the many you have written sits by my bedside, and the title of it — forgive me those who might not like bad language — the title is "The Truth Will Set You Free, But First It Will Piss You Off!" So I'm wondering now what truth is setting you free and what continues to piss you off?

GS: Well, actually, right at this moment, I mean, the truth is COVID — you know, and we understand that is a universal experience and danger we're all dealing with, and what pisses me off is that we don't use that experience in the positive sense. In the sense that we learn from dangers as well as from accomplishments. It pisses me off that this is not used in a positive way to overcome the idea of categories of human beings or of national boundaries or of countries. I mean, we're all here on Spaceship Earth.

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