Remembering Gloria Steinem
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What made Elizabeth Day want to interview Gloria Steinem and how is the episode introduced?
I, along with so many of you, will be heartbroken to learn of the death of Gloria Steinem. feminist icon who passed away at the age of ninety two. We owe her so much, and I was unbelievably thrilled when I got to interview her on how to fail a few years ago. She was one of those rare heroes who lived up to every sky high expectation I had of her. It's one of my favourite episodes, it taught me so much, and it is our honour to re release it and to remember with fondness and with appreciation and gratitude the legendary Gloria Steinem.
Some evil thing happened here.
Три ПІПЛД СУБЕРБІН Міссага, Канада.
It's not a coincidence.
Она афер, і на сай хау. Із бadлук, ортимо синістер?
The worst investigative mess I've ever. Long simmering what took you so fucking long. To get here.
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Just a note before we start. This season of How to Fail with Elizabeth Day was recorded remotely under lockdown. It is one of the immense privileges of what I do that very occasionally I get the chance to meet one of my heroes. Today is one such day because my guest is none other than the feminist icon, organizer, activist and journalist, Gloria Steinem. A woman I have quoted so much in my own life and work. That it feels almost creepy to be introducing her. But introduce her, I will, because there is so much to say. National Geographic has referred to her as the world's most famous feminist, a woman who has been actively fighting for gender, equality and reproductive justice since the early nineteen sixties.
She was born in Ohio in nineteen thirty four and had an itinerant childhood with her mother, Ruth, and father Leo, a roaming antiques dealer. Although her youthful ambitions were to be either a horse rancher or a dancer. She became a journalist after graduating from Smith College. One of her first articles was about contraception and how women were forced to choose between a career and marriage. It appeared in Esquire in 1962, a whole year before Betty Frieden published The Feminine Mystique. Steinem went on to report on politics and social issues for New York magazine before co founding the feminist publication Ms. in 1972. Since then, she has traveled the world, speaking at rallies, protesting everything from the Vietnam War to female genital mutilation, and organizing activist pressure to change the world we live in for the better.
Women my age are quite simply indebted to what Steinem and her peers did and continue so tirelessly to do. An award-winning and prolific writer, Steinem has authored several books, including a biography of Marilyn Monroe and the best-selling My Life on the Road. In twenty thirteen, Barack Obama presented her with the Presidential Medal of Freedom, the highest civilian honour in America. Her latest book, The Truth Will Set You Free, but first it will piss you off. is an inspiring collection of her greatest quotes, introduced with a selection of new essays from Steinem herself. In fact, Sinem has coined so many legendary phrases that it's quite hard to pick just one. But for the purposes of this podcast, I suppose the most apt is Steinem's famous declaration that brave is not being unafraid, but feeling the fear and doing it anyway.
Gloria Steinem, welcome to How to Fail.
Thank you for that very, very generous introduction. I'm going to try to live up to it.
Oh, I meant every single word and I have quoted you just so much in my life. And it was really interesting reading your latest book because I just realised how many of the things that you've said have become part of common parlance. But what do you think is the secret to a good quote? And do you know when you've made one that's going to stand the test of time?
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Chapters
4 chapters
1
What made Elizabeth Day want to interview Gloria Steinem and how is the episode introduced?
0:00–11:48
2
How did Gloria Steinem’s early life and career shape her feminist activism?
11:48–26:32
3
What does Gloria say about the power of quotes and why they endure?
26:32–37:09
4
Why does Gloria describe fear as a sign of growth and how does she use it?
37:09–57:00
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