Susan Stamberg

And I sort of devoted myself to that.

First of all, the arts were always so important to me from the time that I was a child.

And I loved music and I loved poetry and I loved visual arts, all of that.

And being raised in New York, I was lucky enough to be able to be exposed to some of the best of that.

And I carried that love.

with me into the broadcasting that I did, and very unusually for those early days, and even today, brought it to the news broadcasts.

As you were saying, you never heard anything like that on formal news programs, except when you turn to public radio, and when you turn to the very first broadcast of ours, which was the flagship program, All Things Considered.

And that continues, not as much as I wish it would, but that continues into today.

Yes.

I must say, my dear, that I have the ghost of that continues to haunt me.

And it wasn't so much a nice girl.

It was a good girl.

And, you know, I'm a woman of the 50s.

It's when I came up.

It was before there was women's liberation.

So we were expected to be married good housewives and be homemakers.

There are wonderful homemakers in this world.

And many people listening to this were raised by them.

But it didn't fascinate or interest me very much.

I always knew that there was more I wanted to do.