5/22/2023 0 Comments Gloria steinem on the road![]() to tell the crowd about “the dream’’ during the 1963 March on Washington, spurring him to utter his most famous oratory. Steinem was close enough to hear gospel legend Mahalia Jackson urge Martin Luther King Jr. While there are elements of autobiography, My Life on the Road is less about her personal journey than it is about those Steinem has met along the way, and knowing that listening to others’ stories is as important as sharing your own. “Would I have dared to challenge rules later in life if my father had obeyed them?’’ she asks. ![]() They returned to an actual home only intermittently, and Steinem wonders whether her father’s defiance of convention to pursue his passions helped to shape the revolutionary she would become. Steinem, now 81, recalls spending a good part of her childhood driving across the country with her parents and sister, as the family followed her father’s dreams of new opportunities looming just around the bend. ![]() magazine and champion of gender equality reveals that she is in many ways her father’s daughter. So writes Gloria Steinem, the activist and feminist icon, in My Life on the Road. Her new book is a lyrical meditation on restlessness and the quest for equity that has taken her from the women-only rail cars of India to myriad university campuses where she has helped generations of women and men rally their collective voices.Įarly on, the co-founder of Ms. “We have to behave as if everything we do matters, because sometimes it does.’’ ![]()
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