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"A woman needs a man like a fish needs a bicycle".
This week's Time magazine has a blurb mentioning Gloria Steinem. She's getting married. I guess she doesn't conform to her own sayings.
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"A woman needs a man like a fish needs a bicycle".
This week's Time magazine has a blurb mentioning Gloria Steinem. She's getting married. I guess she doesn't conform to her own sayings.
Or, like so many of us, she spends a lot of time wanting (and chasing after) things she doesn't need...
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>she spends a lot of time wanting (and chasing after) things she doesn't need...<
Hi Bridget,
Great! I think this is the original deep meaning of the phrase about the fish and the bicycle. Things that are needed cannot be the subject of fancy dreams.
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Oh boy, this thread sure has turned a couple of corners! I
love this place!
Now--wsieber, Dearest, I have to say that there are some people, including right here in the U.S.--indeed, even
my own state--for whom the necessities are dreams.
And, Bridget, I think that first, those of us who have the
luxury of chasing after things we don't need should count
our blessings.
But also--I am very thankful that we live in a time and place where hunting and chasing are more usually done in fun, such as a guy sneaking up and grabbing his girlfriend
up off the floor, then carries her off for a screaming walk
around the room. Most of our hunting and chasing now have
far less serious consequences than civilization did hundreds and thousands of years ago.
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What's this talk her quote being an analogy for chasing after your dream? Since when do fish yearn for and chase after bicycles?
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Since when do fish yearn for and chase after bicycles?Can you prove that they don't? 
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What's this talk her quote being an analogy for chasing after your dream?
After some creative interpretation, I think I understand
your question. He didn't say it was an analogy. It seemed
to me that he was taking the well-precedented license of
nudging the thread around a bend.
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>taking the well-precedented license of nudging the thread around a bend<
You almost made it..I actually bent the thread around a .. nudge.
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> Can you prove that they don't?
The last fish I spoke to had no revolutionary tendencies.
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>Since when do fish yearn for and chase after bicycles?< Amsterdam is known for its channels ("grachten") criss-crossing the city. Every year people throw hundreds of bikes into the channels. Why should the serious-minded Dutch do such a thing if not to cater for the need of their fish ?
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