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�FIRST LADY HILLARY RODBAM CLINTON
VIDEOTAPE OF REMIRXS FOR 6th .INNtJAL GLORIA S'l'EINEM AWARDS DINNER
Mlt.Y 1994
[Acknowledgments: Gloria Steinem, Letty Pogrebin, Marlo Thomas,
and Pat Carbine, who are the founding mothers of the Ms.
Foundation; and Marie Wilson, president of the Foundation]
Thank you Gloria, Letty, Marlo, Pat, Marie, and all of you
at the Ms. Foundation for this award. I must say that I'm
honored, and flattered. But I also want to reiterate that my work
is really no different from the work that millions of women do
every day across this country -- with little or no recognition
for their efforts.
In ways big and small, public and private, we all make a
difference. And I think the real heroines tonight are the three
Gloria Steinem award winners, whose grass roots efforts have
meant so much to the health and well-being of American women of
all colors and socio-economic backgrounds.
I'm sorry I can't be with you in person tonight, to
celebrate the Ms. Foundation's efforts on behalf of women and to
toast Gloria's 60th birthday. 'But I assure you I'm keeping my
calendar open for Gloria's 70th birthday in 2004.
I'd like to start by saying something you· already know: that
the work of this foundation is extremely important to the future
of our nation.
Whether supporting battered women's shelters, women's
economic development, or launching nationwide events like Take
Our Daughters to Work Day, the national women's fund that these
wonderful women helped start is changing the.social and political
landscape for all American women.
Since yesterday was Mother's Day, I'm especially pleased
that the theme of tonight's celebration is women and health care.
As you know, that's a subject close to my heart, for several
reasons.
First, because women are the primary caregivers in our
society and taey have the most at stake in health care reform.
Second, because the President's plan speaks directly to the
concerns women have about the health of their children . . .
about the health of their aging parents . . . and about their own
health needs.
After years of being relegated to the margins of the health
care system, women will finally get their due with health care
reform. They'll get immunizations and well-baby exams for their
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�children. They'll get long-term care options for their parents
and disabled relatives. They'll get preventive and diagnostic
services -- including prenatal care -- for themselves. And they
will know that their nation is placing a new emphasis on
research, diagnosis and treatment of diseases that primarily
afflict women.
Now, to the other point of the evening: Gloria's birthday.
By now we all know that Gloria is ageless, that her message is
timeless, and that her turning 60 is really just an excuse to get
friends together to think about what really matters in this
country.
So let me give my two cents about Gloria and her work. For
30 years, Gloria Steinem has eloquently conveyed the thoughts and
feelings of millions of women who have felt powerless to speak
out on their own. Her many good works have helped legitimize the
opinions and ideas of women -- and energized women to become
involved in every sphere of American life.
In recognition of her extraordinary commitment to women
and her dedication to making our nation a more just and more
tolerant one for all Americans -- the President is conferring on
Gloria a Presidential Certificate of Commendation.
In a moment, Secretary of Health and Human Services Donna
Shalala will present the certificate to Gloria, but first, I have
the honor of reading what it says:
"The President Awards This Certificate of Commendation to
Gloria Steinem:
For her steadfast, courageous efforts to better the lives of
American women. As a writer, speaker, foundation leader, and
businesswoman, her pioneering work has given voice to the hopes
and concerns of women of all ages.
Her contributions over three decades will affect generations
to come and represent our nation's highest ideals of service and
citizenship."
So Gloria, thank"you for all that you have done
and
continue to do -~ to inspire us to change our world for the
better. Thank you for your wisdom, your wit, your guts, and for
your willingness to provoke us to think in new ways about the
meaning of equality, justice, and progress ..
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LEVEL 1 - 5 OF 38 STORIES
Copyright 1992 The Times Mirror Company
Los Angeles Times
February 3, 1992, Monday, Home Edition
NAME: GLORIA STEINEM
SECTION: View; Part E; Page 1; Column 2; View Desk
LENGTH: 2044 words
HEADLINE: AN IMPERFECT IMAGE;
WHEN GLORIA STEINEM ADMITS TO BEING INSECURE ABOUT HER LOOKS AND CHOOSING THE
WRONG GUY, THE CRITICS POUNCE. SOME ARE EVEN SAYING FEMINISM IS DEAD.
BYLINE: By GERALDINE BAUM, TIMES STAFF WRITER
DATELINE: NEW YORK
BODY:
So, it is possible to gossip about
Gloria Steinem
even more than before.
If people prattled on about her when she was merely the smart provocateur of
equality between women and men, they are at it again after her confession that
her inner and outer lives have not been symmetrical all these years.
In fact, like a lot of women, Steinem once fell for the wrong guy. She was
insecure. She didn't feel pretty, though she was "the pret-ty one" in the
feminist movement. She had a traumatic childhood that left a destructive
imprint.
And, of all things, she is not and never has been perfect.
That shouldn't surprise anyone who heard her lecture in a college auditorium
or maybe caught her on "Donahue" or read her work in Ms. magazine.
"Every time I lectured or spoke, I revealed my life wasn't all perfect," she
says. "I talked about myself at the beginning of every lecture because that's
what consciousness-raising is: It's truth about our lives."
Maybe some people didn't understand her.
When feminists declared "the personal is political," they expected Steinem
who looked as if she had her single-woman life in order -- to be politically
perfect. Now, her latest admissions of human frailty, made in her new book
called "Revolution From Within: A Book of Self-Esteem," have been greeted with a
nasty glee that begs the question:
So what if Gloria steinem the person wasn't as perfect as Gloria steinem the
media dazzler? Why are some who have benefited from her tireless public
commitment lapping up her private-image problems in a frenzy that seems almost
anthropological, the way some cultures killed their kings when they got old or
vulnerable?
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One British female interviewer trotted into her Manhattan apartment and
declared bluntly: "I don't like you; you make me feel bad about myself."
Another columnist wrote of Steinem: "I read this book by the woman who now
truly has everything: fame, fortune, and peace of mind, and in the process of
the introduction to her self-esteem, my own dripped slowly away."
And Washington author Sally Quinn recently characterized Steinem and others
who spoke for the movement as "hypocritical," suggesting also that "feminism is
dead." In a newspaper opinion column Quinn wrote, "Not surprisingly, when
Steinem used to say, 'A woman needs a man like a fish needs a bicycle,' the
women who believed her felt ashamed and guilty."
That business about the fish and bicycle, Steinem retorts, was a throwaway
line coined by someone else.
"I never, ever, ever said it wasn't important to have men in our lives," she
insists, sounding annoyed. "In fact, in my first decade of lecturing, I always
said, far from dividing women and men, feminism will make love possible for the
first time. That economic dependency may look like love, but it feels very
different."
Still, Steinem seems perplexed by the spiteful undertone of these reactions.
While in Cleveland the other day facing about the 50th interview for the new
book, she called back to New York to report that despite feeling "happier,
stronger, better, more likely to be out on the ramparts than ever before, people
perceive me as feeling weak because I talk about pain in my life."
Suddenly, she has new empathy for former Democratic vice presidential
candidate Edmund Muskie, once blasted by the media for publicly crying.
"It's amazing to me that he was regarded as being less strong for being able
to express sadness," Steinem says.
Similarly, among Quinn's evidence to support her theory that feminism is dead
is Steinem's admission in her book that she fell in love with someone who, Quinn
says, "treated her badly. (Steinem) had seduced him, she says, by playing down
the person she was and playing up the person he wanted her to be . • • • "
Steinem can't imagine how Quinn got the idea she was treated badly.
"If she read the book, she'd see I was treated wonderfully," she says of her
two-year relationship with a man who, though not named in the book, East coast
gossip columns suggest is real estate mogul Mort Zuckerman.
But Steinem disagrees that the so-called death of feminism is evidenced by
misfires in her and other feminist leaders' personal lives. After all, her
celebrity, at bottom, has more to do with the way women live than with some
dolled-up fantasy image on a TV screen.
"It's impossible to be a role model if you don't admit your mistakes," she
says. "All you do is convince other people that they can't do it. And that's
another thing that people don't get: Everything is not solved in one
generation."
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Author Susan Faludi, who, in her early 30s, is a generation younger than the
feminist leader, understood her message as well as why some others didn't.
"Gloria Steinem has always been this voice of reason and wit," says Faludi,
author of "Backlash: The Undeclared War Against American Women." "One reason
there's such eagerness· to attack her is that she in fact belies tiresome
stereotypes . • • • She's attractive, has a personal life. She's funny, which
makes her a constant irritation to those who would dismiss feminism as a
gathering of sour-faced, bonneted suffragettes."
And by the way, Faludi adds, the message she picked up from Steinem is "we
live in an unequal society where women are denied basic rights for reproductive
choice, equal pay, equal access to institutions of higher learning and political
power.
"Her version of feminism was that a woman shouldn't be judged by whether she
marries or falls for Mort Zuckerman," Faludi says. "If you look at steinem's
political focus for the last 20 years, she hasn·'t been going around the country
passing herself off as a marriage counselor."
Gloria Steinem, almost 58, is in her fabulously redecorated Manhattan
apartment talking. about a sorrowfully impoverished childhood.
For this interview, she sits in a overstuffed chair, her bare feet tucked
under her; her trademark streaked hair, no longer a veil over the edges of
aviator glasses, is shorter and pulled back. She is still thin and trendy in a
crushed-velvet blouse and leggings, but a whole-grain diet and exercise seem to
have added sturdiness to a wiry frame.
From the age of 10, after her pa~ents' divorce, Steinem was left to care for
her mentally ill mother in a tumbledown house in Toledo, Ohio.
That experience, she explains, led her as an adult to mother a movement -and ultimately ignore her own emotional needs. In relearning those needs,
Steinem believes she can be more effective. But nowhere in the book does she say
establishing self-worth should take precedence over social accent. At heart,
this book is about their codependence.
"If someone had given me this book before I wrote it, I don't think I would
have understood it," she says. "I probably would have gotten the political part
first -- structures outside us undermine our self-authority in order to get us
to obey their authority. But whether I would have been ready to go back to my
own past . • · . . I think you need to feel ready."
And was she ever ready.
When she sat down to write four years ago, she was recovering from a brush
with breast cancer. Ms., which she had co-founded and nurtured, had been sold.
The mismatch with Zuckerman had fallen apart. The writer in Steinem was
frustrated that she had not produced anything longer than magazine articles,
which were collected in an earlier book. And she hadn't saved a .cent.
with a $700,000 advance and a longing to write about self-esteem ("We write
what we need"), Steinem spent several months putting together a 250-page
manuscript. But it wasn't until a friend read the first draft that she began
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to explore what would become the true spine of the book.
"I don't know how to tell you this," said the friend, a therapist, "but I
think you have a self-esteem problem. You forgot to put yourself in."
Steinem was devastated. But over the next three years she stayed put and
wrote and rewrote, instead of traveling five days a week for the cause. She also
sought psychological counseling, but it all didn't come together easily.
"In every chapter I recapitulated the process of writing the book," she says.
"I would write a chapter, leave myself out and then start again."
"I finally began to admit," she writes, "that I, too, was more aware of other
people's. feelings than my own; that I had been repeating the patterns of my
childhood without recognizing them • • • that my image of myself was very
distant from other people's image of me; that, in short, my childhood years -- a
part of my life I thought I had walled off -- were still shaping the present as
surely as a concealed magnet shapes metal dust."
Steinem wove her own experiences with inspirational tales of others, from a
lesbian activist to Mohandas K. Gandhi. The result is a compilation of
philosophy, politics, history, several relentlessly cheery self-help homilies
and stories from Steinem's 20 years of witnessing revolution.
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They were equally exhilarating and draining years. While she was traversing
America -- lecturing in every town that would hear her -- she was also
organizing for women's every need, from day care to shelter for the abused. Back
home, there was almost always a steady boyfriend, a corps of friends and Ms.
magazine, with a staff that was like family and finances that were a major
burden.
Steinem also kept busy in her role as a celebrity. She had first been noticed
in her pre-feminist life as a New York reporter; a canny piece about her
experience as an undercover Playboy bunny earned her the label of "the thinking
man's Jean Shrimpton,"- and that patina endured when she became a feminist icon.
These days, however, feminism is not the route to celebrityhood it once was
-- better you should check into the Betty Ford Center. Declarations on the death
of feminism are popular among some younger women who fear it would associate
them with bra-burners. (For the record, Steinem says she neither burned a bra
nor saw one even lightly singed.)
"You know, the women's movement has been declared dead every Wednesday at
teatime," Steinem says, laughing. But she's not smiling when she gives an
example of why women's issues are more important than ever: "Abortion is going
'to be the big, explosive issue of the 1992 presidential campaign if the Supreme
Court overturns Roe vs. Wade."
She adds, "Look at the public opinion polls. There has never been more
support of every issue of equality than there is now." And basic to equality is
self-worth.
Some may suspect Steinem is reconfiguring herself for an era in which
bookstores devote whole sections to self-help and celebrities talk publicly
about their childhood experiences with incest. But as Faludi notes: "Why not
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read an intelligent self-help book by a feminist? If she can tap into that huge
industry and give people a few feminist tidbits to chew on along the way, so
much the better."
In the past, living for her work may have allowed Steinem to live in her
public image. Now, perhaps, her much-improved self-image may help her work and
therefore others.
"I would have been much better off if I had made these changes long ago," she
says with regret. "I would have been better able to deal with conflict. I would
have been less likely to confuse motion with action. Instead of saying yes to
three things and doing them adequately, I would have said yes to one and written
a really good speech with impact."
Those lessons learned, she says, she will continue to write and agitate. Her
next book will be on "the masculinization of wealth," a treatise on women and
money. She will also write for Ms., now revived and healthy, and work for the
Ms. Foundation, whose projects for women she describes with the enthusiasm of a
new recruit.
There's all that to anticipate and -- aging.
A postcard stuck in her bedroom mirror shows a white-haired Chinese woman, a
mass of smiling wrinkles and ruddy cheeks. The woman was belting out an opera to
the sky when a photographer came upon her in a Beijing park. For a moment, she
stopped to smile at the camera, then went on singing.
"Now, she smiles at me every morning from my mantel," Steinem writes in her
book. "I love this woman. I like to think that, walking on the path ahead of me,
she looks a lot like my future self."
GRAPHIC: Photo, COLOR, (Orange County Edition, E1) Gloria Steinem, 57, wrestles
with her insecurities in "Revolution From Within." "It's impossible to be a role
model if you don't admit your mistakes," she says. JOE TABACCA 1 For The Times;
Photo, In 1979, with trademark streaked hair and aviator glasses, Gloria Steinem
kept busy in her role as feminist celebrity. For the record, she says she
neither burned a bra nor saw one even lightly singed. Los Angeles Times
LANGUAGE: ENGLISH
LEVEL 1 - 7 OF 38 STORIES
Copyright 1992 The Time Inc. Magazine Company
People
January 27, 1992
SECTION: UP FRONT; Pg. 46
LENGTH: 1857 words
HEADLINE: GLORIA CONSIDERS GLORIA;
After years of leading others under the feminist banner, the muse of Ms.
explores the kind of liberation that comes from within
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People, January 27, 1992
BYLINE: by Kim Hubbard
BODY:
SHE IS JUST BACK FROM A SEASIDE vacation in Mexico, and it shows. Clad in
black trousers and ethnic silver belt, a hint of tan across her cheeks, Gloria
Steinem looks fit, relaxed and much younger than her 57 years.
"Oh, it was wonderful," she says. "It was maybe the third time I've gotten
away for a week in 20 years-- the first time with no phone. Since [Ms.]
magazine was started, I couldn't leave. There was always some emergency."
Still, three vacations in 20 years? She ponders for a moment. "I guess
there's another level too," she says. "I was out of the country for a few days
in 1961 when my father was in the car accident from which he later died, and he
couldn't reach me. So maybe the association • • • "
The insight is pure Gloria Steinem -- revised version. After spending more
than two decades fighting for the rights of women everywhere, the world's most
famous feminist -- the woman who cofounded Ms. magazine and helped alter the
consciousness of a generation -- has decided to turn some attention on herself.
That means cutting back on her killer speaking schedule and indulging in the
occasional south-of-the-border spree. But more important, it means looking
inward. Once convinced that "the examined life is not worth living," Steinem now
takes pleasure -- and sees value -- in self-knowledge.
"Before, I wouldn't have looked for the memory of my father's accident as a
bruise from the past," she says. "And of course once you do, its power over you
starts to diminish."
It is truths of that sort that she explores in her new book, Revolution from
Within: A Book of Self-Esteem. A chatty amalgam of sociology, pop psychology,
self-help and self-disclosure, the book is hardly the purely political Steinem
of old ("Sometimes I shock friends now by saying something like, 'I'm taking
yoga,' "she says), and reviewers so far have been unimpressed. (A "squishy
exercise in feeling better," declared Newsweek's Laura Shapiro.) Yet Revolution,
Steinem says, "isn't a turning away from the women's movement, it's the next
step. You can't do the external without the internal."
When she began writing four years ago, in fact, Steinem's only intention was
for her book to help women -- other women. "The idea came from years of
traveling and seeing women who were smart and courageous and funny but just
didn't believe in themselves," she says. She soon broadened its scope to include
men. But when a friend read the first draft, according to Steinem, she said, "I
think you have a self-esteem problem. You forgot to put yourself in. "
Steinem, who had begun psychotherapy in 1986, recognized the truth -- and
rewrote the book to include it. Her own self-esteem deficiencies included a
tendency to escape pain through overwork and an inability to feel valuable
unless she was helping others. "I was a neglected child," she says, "so I
thought my inner world was less real than other people's, and I hadn't stopped
to replenish it."
The wonder is that she had kept going anyway. Since Steinem's intelligence
and charisma first captured public attention in the early, heady days of
feminism, she has run herself ragged for the cause: Until recently she labored
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at Ms. for up to 18 hours a day and traveled weekly to speak, consult and
advise. Even when organized feminism. flagged under the backlash of the Reagan
era, steinem never lost her zeal. "She is a saint," says Marlo Thomas, a
longtime friend. "Most people get tired and just send a check, but Gloria gives
and gives."
By the 1980s she was nearly giving out. A.diagnosis of breast cancer in 1986
(she has been healthy since), the end of a relationship of several years with
real-estate developer and publisher Mort Zuckerman in 1987, and the sale of Ms.
to an Australian corporation that same year all conspired to raise her stress
levels. Says investment banker Stanley Pottinger, who dated Steinem in the 1970s
and remains a close friend: "The evidence of burnout was obvious to me. The
magazine was Gloria's family, so when it was sold, it was devastating." Says
Steinem: "I was tired and angry, and I just sort of cut off those feelings."
It was a habit she acquired early. The daughter of an itinerant antiques
dealer and a newspaperwoman turned troubled housewife, Steinem spent much of her
childhood shuttling between Michigan, where her father, Leo, ran a resort at
Clark Lake, and California and Florida, where he took his wife, Ruth, and two
daughters most winters via trailer. Gloria went to school only sporadically
until she was 11. "I used to play solitaire a lot," she says. "I endowed each
suit with a personality, and I spent all my time trying to treat the clubs
equally so they wouldn't know I liked the hearts better."
In 1946 Leo and Ruth divorced, leaving Gloria to care for her mother, by then
virtually incapacitated with depression and delusions. (Gloria's sister,
suzanne, older by nine years, was in college.) Mother and daughter spent six
painful years in a rundown Toledo house, part of·which they rented out. Money
was a constant worry, and the house had rats. One night when she was a teenager,
Gloria awoke drenched in blood from a rat bite that had struck a vein. When she
and her mother returned from the emergency room, says Steinem, "the rat had
licked up the blood. What I wanted most in life then was a cage to sleep in, so
I'd be safe."
Salvation came at Smith College, which Steinem could afford when her mother
sold the Toledo house. "I felt so lucky to be there," says Steinem, who majored
in government. "I thought I'd just marry a professor and stay forever."
A woman of her time, she thought vaguely about having a career, "until I
married," she says. Yet after becoming engaged during her senior year, she
backed out. "In the 1950s, once you married you became what your husband was, so
it seemed like the last choice you'd ever have," she says. The idea .of children
frightened her too. "I'd already been the very small parent of a very big child
--my mother," she says. "I didn't want to end up taking care of someone else."
A postgrad fellowship in India set her on the road to helping humankind
instead. "I thought, so much poverty in one place and so much wealth in another
--this can't continue," she says. "When I came home I couldn't take taxis
because I identified them with rickshaws. I'd insist on sitting in the front."
She spent a number of years in the '60s free-lancing for magazines like
Esquire and Vogue while helping to organize farm workers and working for the
civil rights movement in her spare time. As a woman, and an attractive one, she
found it difficult to land the serious assignments she coveted -- particularly
after she went undercover as a bunny to expose the exploitation at Playboy
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clubs for Show magazine. Far too many male journalists treated her in the manner
of one unforgettable editor at LIFE who, according to Steinem, told her, "We
don't want a pretty girl, we want a writer. Go home."
She was delighted when Clay Felker hired her to write a column on city
politics for New York magazine in 1968, and it was while covering a speak-out on
abortion for New York four years before Roe v. Wade that her feminist instincts
were awakened. Steinem, who had had a legal abortion in London after college,
remembers thinking: "If one in four of us has had this experience, why is it
illegal?"
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She had stumbled upon her calling. She began writing magazine pieces about
women's liberation and giving speeches. She appeared almost always with other
women, but it was Steinem the media noticed. "She has star quality,": says writer
Jane O'Reilly, a fellow feminist. "People really like to look at her, the way
they like to look at Julia Roberts." And there was more to it than that. "My
permanent image is of Gloria with a notebook, writing down the names and
addresses of people asking for things-- 'Please, my husband beats me,' "
O'Reilly says. "She resonates kindness."
But Steinem's status as a media darling -~ the sexy feminist -- inspired a
certain resentment too. Betty Friedan denounced her for opportunism. "I never
felt it was very personal though," Steinem says. "She just really felt that she
owned the movement." (Says Friedan today: "In the early days we had ideological
and political differences, but she has made her own contribution.")
In 1972 Steinem helped start Ms. magazine, featuring stories traditional
women's magazines wouldn't touch. "It's been satisfying to see sexual harassment
or battered women rise from the level of cover stories in a relatively small
magazine to being national issues," Steinem says. Readers loved it from the
start, but advertisers weren't so sure. Steinem spent countless hours trying to
persuade them that Ms. readers weren't the lunatic fringe. She succeeded, well
enough, until 1987, when lack of advertising support and rising production costs
forced the magazine's sale.
Through it all, somehow, she found time for romance. Always a hit with men -"It's her wit, and her elegant fingers," says ex-beau Pottinger -- Steinem had
liaisons with directors Mike Nichols and Robert Benton, among others. And then
there was Zuckerman, to whom Steinem devotes several pages in her new book,
though he is never named. The tycoon and the activist had little in common ("I
had to suppress the thought that his weekend house cost more than several years'
worth of funds for the entire women's movement • • • "Steinem writes), but she
was drawn to his energy and humor. Also, she says, "he was unhappy, and I
thought he could become happier by using his power in what I thought would be
more satisfying ways."
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did, as it turned out, give Ms. a financial boost, but the
was doomed. Today he says simply: "The Gloria Steinem that I went
a wonderful woman -- brilliant, beautiful, witty and completely
her movement and her magazine."
Says Steinem: "We didn't share any interests, except dancing. It really
wasn't his fault. I was the one not being true to myself." That realization was
part of the crisis that led to her book.
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These days, for the first time since she was 21, Steinem has no steady
relationship -- "and it's terrific to realize you can be happy on your own," she
says. She lives with her cat, Magritte, in a Manhattan duplex filled with books
and colorful kilims, and she spends as much time as possible writing, as she has
always longed to. She takes exercise classes and has become a vegetarian. "I
hope I'll never again allow myself to get so flat-out, burnt-out exhausted," she
says.
Friends say they notice a change. "For the first time, she feels entitled to
give herself a little more," says Marlo Thomas. Pal Liz Smith isn't so sure.
"She seems to me just as self-sacrificing and troubled about the state of things
as ever," Smith says.
Both observations may be true. Steinem knows there is still work to do and
has decided that the best way to help is to pause and help herself. "We need to
be long-distance runners to make a real social revolution," she says. "And you
can't be a long-distance runner unless you have some inner strength."
GRAPHIC: Picture 1, STEINEM'S STRETCH descBlack and white: Gloria Steinem doing
a yoga exercise- contents page., (c) 1991 LORI GRINKER/CONTACT; Picture 2,
"I've seen so many women who've carved out some independence and still feel
inadequate," says steinem (at home). descBlack and white: Gloria Steinem.,
Photographs by (c) Lori GrinkerfContact Press Image; Picture 3, Spreading the
feminist word in the '70s "was like lighting a match to a haystack," says
steinem (left, at a women's march). descBlack and white: Gloria Steinem and two
women carrying a banner in a march., MICHAEL ABRAMSON/SIPA; Picture 4, "I'm not
angry at my parents," says Steinem (right, en famille in 1945). "I know they did
the best they could." descBlack and white: Ruth Steinem, Leo Steinem, Suzanne
Steinem and Gloria Steinem., NO CREDIT; Picture 5, When she met Zuckerman, "I
thought, 'Here's a person I won't have to take care of,' "says steinem (with
Mort in 1985). descBlack and white: Gloria Steinem and Mort Zuckerman., ROBIN
PLATZER/TWIN IMAGES; Picture 6, Now consulting editor to Ms., Steinem (at work
in 1980) remembers its early days as "important, interesting, terrifying."
descBlack and white: Gloria Steinem talking on the telephone., MARY ELLEN MARK;
Picture 7, "I wasn't unhappy," says Steinem (at home with godchild Rebecca,
daughter of Alice Walker). "But now I feel more content in myself." descBlack
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Chicago Tribune
March 18, 1990, Sunday, FINAL EDITION
SECTION: TEMPOWOMAN; Pg. 2; ZONE: C; Womanews
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BODY:
If Ms. was the magazine that defined feminism, can the new Ms. magazine,
scheduled to appear in June, be described as post-feminist?
"How about post-patriarchal?"
Gloria Steinem
shoots back.
Steinem, 55, one of the founding editors of Ms. in 1972, is consulting editor
of the new venture. She and Robin Morgan, 49, the magazine's new
editor-in-chief, are reshaping Ms., which suspended publication in November,
into a new subscriber-supported, advertising-free magazine - now owned by Dale
w. Lang of Lang Communications.
The annual subscription price for the revamped Ms., to be published
bimonthly, will rise to $40, from $14.97 for 12 issues a year. Current
subscribers will be offered a discount. The newsstand price, formerly $2.50,
will be about $6.
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The New York Times
December 11, 1984, Tuesday, Late City Final Edition
Correction Appended
NAME: Gloria Steinem
CATEGORY: Books and Literature; Social Activism
SECTION: Section C; Page 25, Column 3; Cultural Desk
LENGTH: 1119 words
HEADLINE: 'BUNNY'S TALE' DEPICTS STEINEM'S PLAYBOY DAYS
BYLINE: By STEPHEN FARBER
DATELINE: LOS ANGELES, Dec. 10
BODY:
Gloria Steinem stood in front of a replica of New York's now-defunct
Playboy Club and felt as if she had been transported back in time. ''It looks
exactly the way I remember it,'' Miss Steinem said. ''I feel as if I'm on 59th
street in New York.''
It has been 21 years since Miss Steinem posed as a Playboy Bunny and wrote a
humorous, dryly observant expose of the Bunny rituals for Show Magazine. One day
last week, Miss Steinem stopped by to visit the set where her adventures are
being re-created for the ABC-TV movie ''A Bunny's Tale,'' with Kirstie Alley
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starring as Miss Steinem. It is scheduled to be shown in February.
Miss Steinem's story is being filmed by a largely female crew: The director,
co-producer, screenwriter, associate producer, assistant directors, assistant
cameraperson and several others are all women.
''Women are still struggling not to be Bunnies,'' said the director, Karen
Arthur. ''At least I know that the same kind of discrimination goes on in the
sphere where I work. Women directors have had to sue to get equal
opportunities.''
Built-In Contradiction
Stan Margulies, the veteran television producer of such successful m1n1series as ''Roots'' and ''The Thornbirds,'' said he feels like the token male on
the production. ''It is very exciting to see so many women working on one
film,'' he said. ''Gloria's story is definitely not dated. Think of how often
women are still judged by how close to a 10 they are.''
Ironically, some of the women impersonating Bunnies in the film were chosen
on precisely that basis. ''In casting,the young women who were to play the
nonspeaking Bunnies,'' Mr. Margulies said, ''we were judging them as they would
have been judged at the Playboy Club - purely on their physical appearance. Yet
what separated our auditions from the usual meat market was the fact that these
women were auditioning for a woman director. The level of communication was
completely different.''
Nevertheless, the participants are aware of the contradiction built into the
film. While it claims to condemn the dehumanization of the Playboy Bunnies, it
will also get as much mileage as possible out of scenes showing beautiful women
in scanty, tight-fitting outfits. ''There's always a danger of titillation,''
Miss Steinem acknowledged.''You can perpetuate something merely by depicting it.
I hope that some people who tune in for the wrong reasons will still get
something. out of it. When I speak, which I do several times a week, lots of
people come out of curiosity: it walks, it talks, it's a feminist. And that's
fine as long as a more human understanding comes through at the end. I hope the
same will be true of the film.''
The film project originated a few years ago with the co-producer, Joan Marks,
who discovered Miss Steinem's 1963 article while researching a story that she
sold to ''Laverne and Shirley'' in which Laverne auditions to become a Playboy
Bunny. ''That was a very watered-down story,'' Miss Marks said. ''We even had
Hugh Hefner playing himself in the episode. But when we shot it at 20th
Century-Fox, everyone at the studio came on the set to watch, and I realized it
was a world that was very exciting to people.''
Initially Miss Steinem refused to sell the rights to her article, partly
because she recalled her experience as a Bunny with some embarrassment. Many
people assume that the article helped to propel Miss steinem's career as a
journalist, whereas she said, ''At the time I felt it was a major career error.
I lost a number of serious journalistic assignments because so many people saw
me as a Bunny.''
Miss Marks persisted in her desire to film the story and finally won Miss
Steinem's cooperation. Miss Steinem demanded and got the right to approve the
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screenplay. With Miss steinem's agreement, Miss Marks and the screenwriter Deena
Goldstone decided to expand the story to dramatize Miss Steinem's personal life
as well as her experiences at the Playboy Club. Miss Steinem herself is the only
real person named in the film. The other characters - including her lover, her
roommate, her editors at Show Magazine, and the .other Bunnies in the club - are
given fictitious names and are in fact composites drawn from several real people
whom Miss Steinem knew at the time.
In addition, her story was given a more pointed dramatic significance than it
had in reality. In the film the 17 days she spends working as a Playboy Bunny
radicalize her and transform her into a feminist. Miss Steinem conceded that the
truth was somewhat more mundane. ''It took me longer in reality to reach that
conclusion,'' she said. ''That experience was a turning point but not the
turning point. I did begin to realize that my relationship to my editor and to
my man friend was not dissimilar to the Bunnies' relationship to the customers.
I experienced that emotionally at the time, but I didn't understand it until
sometime later.''
Looking back on that period, Miss Steinem recognizes that her consciousness
was just beginning to change. ''I was still maintaining that I was not
discriminated against,'' she said. ''If someone said to me, 'You write like a
man,' I said, 'Thank you.' I felt angry, but I was suppressing it.''
Miss Arthur, who has directed several episodes of ''Cagney and Lacey'' and
the NBC-TV movie ''Victims for Victims,'' had her own memories of the period. In
1963 she was performing in nightclubs in Chicago and spent several evenings at
the Playboy mansion there. ''It seemed glamorous,'' she recalled. ''It was a fun
plce to go and listen to good jazz. I didn't have much understanding of women's
issues then, and I never dreamed that 20 years later I would be doing a film
like this.''
Mr. Hefner, who has not read the script, today expressed concern that the
film would not be accurate. ''They are going to have to invent conflict and
drama that weren't there,'' Mr. Hefner said. ''Most of the girls have enjoyed
being Bunnies. There are seven million stories in the naked city, and Gloria's
is only one of them.''
To play Miss Steinem, the film makers settled on Kirstie Alley, who had won
acclaim in a revival of ''Cat on a Hot Tin Roof'' at the Mark Taper Forum in Los
Angeles. ''I felt a tremendous fear when I first met Gloria,'' Miss Alley
reported. ''I thought she might say, 'Oh my God, what have they done to me?'
Usually when you play a famous person she's deceased. You may get a lot of
flack, but not from the person herself.''
Miss Steinem said she was pleased about the casting of Miss Alley but
admitted to a few other dissatisfactions with the television film. Her main
objection is to the title, she said, ''but I don't seem to have won that
battle.''
CORRECTION-DATE: December 27, 1984, Thursday, Late City Final Edition
CORRECTION: An article Dec. 11 about ''A Bunny's Tale,'' a television
m1n1-series based on a story by Gloria Steinem, misidentified the studio that
produced a ''Laverne and Shirley'' episode drawn in part from the same story. It
was Paramount Studios.
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May 24, 1984, Thursday, Late City Final Edition
NAME: Gloria Steinem
CATEGORY: Books and Literature; Social Activism
SECTION: Section C; Page 10, Column 3; Home Desk
LENGTH: 705 words
HEADLINE: BIRTHDAY CELEBRATION: GLORIA STEINEM AT 50
BYLINE: By GEORGIA DULLEA
BODY:
GLORIA STEINEM, who once f~bbed about birthdays, celebrated a big one last
night in the most public way possible - with 750 well-wishers in· the Grand
Ballroom of the Waldorf-Astoria, with Bette Midler camping on stage and Phil
Donahue trailing a microphone and working the tables below, with Kit McClure and
her all-woman band playing Steinem favorites like ''Diamonds Are a Girl's Best
Friend,'' and with Bella Abzug and a chorus of feminists singing:
Glow little Gloria Glisten, glisten You know how to Make 'em listen.So much
for songs. The only thing to say to Gloria Steinem at her 50th birthday party
was ''You don't look 50.'' And no one could resist saying it because no one
could forget her widely quoted quip at a birthday party 10 years ago. To a
reporter who remarked, ''You don't look 40,'' she replied, ''This is what 40
looks like. We've been lying for so long, who would know?''
It was agreed that 50 looked even better, as the birthday person arrived at
the Waldorf, not.in blue jeans but in blue.silk, her arm circled in a serpentshaped rhinestone bracelet, her bare shoulders dusted with glitter. She looked,
as someone put it, ''younger, thinner and blonder than ever.''
''More radical,'' added Miss Steinem, noting that aging is still harder on
women than on men. This was one reason she went public with her 50th, she said,
''to make a dent in the age barrier.''
Not that she has always been truthful about birthdays. At 13, while dreaming
of tap-dancing her way out of Toledo, she tried to pass for 21. At 30, she posed
as a Playboy bunny, edited ''The Beach Book'' and said nothing when the
publicity department shaved off a few years. At 40, as an international symbol
of feminism, she flaunted her birthday for the first time, and older women
around the country cheered. ''I haven't stopped talking about my age since,''
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she said with· a big smile.
Another reason Miss Steinem went public with her birthday was to raise money
for two organizations she helped found. Proceeds from the $250- a-plate dinner
will go to the Ms. Foundation, which finances women's projects, and to the Ms.
Foundation for Education and Communication, which publishes Ms. magazine where
Miss steinem works as an editor.
''Gloria made sisterhood a household word,'' said Mr. Donahue, co-host of the
party with his wife, Marlo Thomas. ''Even truck drivers know her name.''
Alan Alda, one of few men whose faces have appeared on the cover of Ms. (they
showed Robert Redford's back), gave the toast to ''a woman of history'' and read
fake telegrams from ''Ron'' and ''Phyllis Schlafly.''
The ·guests, a mix from the worlds of show business, politics, television,
publishing and feminism, included George McGovern, Diane Sawyer, Norman and
Frances Lear, Tom Brokaw, Letty Cottin Pogrebin, .Marvin Hamlisch, Stewart Mott,
Donna Shalala, Sherry Lansing, Sally Ride, Peter Jennings, Elizabeth Holtzman,
Ralph Nader, Carol Bellamy, Jane Pauley and Gary Trudeau, Eleanor Smeal, Helen
Gurley Brown and a 51-year-old in black sequins named Carol Burnett.
''I remember when my grandmother turned 47 - I wept, ' ' Miss Burnett said,
mugging. ''Now it's a whole new world for women.''
Then there was 4-month-old Alta Todhunter Buden, who got to go to the party
because her baby sitter didn't show up. She wore pink flannel and slept through
the first course.
Although Miss Steinem's real birthday was on March 25, her friends gave her
two more months at 49 while they wrestled with the details of the celebration.
These included a dinner of veal, asparagus and chocolate cake, pink and white
peonies, 1,000 balloons and a silver-covered souvenir book, ''Gloria at 50,''
for each guest.
The book was filled with photographs from Miss Steinem's personal scrapbook
and was designed by Milton Glaser, a buddy from her days as an editor and
political columnist for New York magazine, which was born in her living room.
The photo that got the most attention was the recent one of Miss steinem in a
bubble bath, which appeared in People magazine and which she now admits was
''not the smartest thing I ever did.''
For the book someone wrote this caption: ''Gloria in the tub. so, this is
what 50 looks like.''
GRAPHIC: photos of guests at party for
Glor~a
Steinem
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People
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October 17, 1983
SECTION: PICKS & PANS; Pages; Pg. 20
LENGTH: 290 words
HEADLINE: OUTRAGEOUS ACTS AND EVERYDAY REBELLIONS;
by Gloria Steinem
HIGHLIGHT:
A checklist of this week's noteworthy TV shows, books, movies, records and other
happenings
BODY:
It is safe to say that for millions of American women, Gloria steinem
represents a feminist ideal fulfilled: She has taken action and with that action
she has helped to change society. In one of the essays in what is.,
surprisingly, her first book, she describes the transformation the women's
rights movement has brought about in America: "We [now] have words like 'sexual
parassment' and 'battered women.' A few years ago, they were just called
~life.'" Steinem was a respected journalist long before she founded Ms.
magazine; until 1971 she had written a political column for New York (another
publication she helped found). A wide range of her writing over the last
quarter of a century is represented in this volume, including·the famous expose
"I Was a Playboy Bunny." There are profiles of Richard Nixon and Eugene
Mccarthy, too, and other classic pieces that will be familiar to the readers of
Ms. magazine -- "If Men Could Menstruate," "The Real Linda Lovelace" and "Jackie
Reconsidered." The lengthy introduction to this volume offers penetrating
glimpse into the private Steinem and how she has changed from the young
uncommitted journalist she once was: "I didn't fight hard enough. I was
grateful for celebrity profiles as a step up from the traditional 'girl writer'
assignments I was inevitably given and to which I sometimes succumbed." Another
section of this anthology, entitled "Ruth's Song (Because She Could Not Sing
It)," reverals how psychological illness ravaged Steinem's mother, who died in
1981 in a Maryland hospital. Much of the book contains material printed before,
but this section is new. It is the most poignant part of an impressive book.
(Holt, Rinehart and Winston, $14.95)
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their work and vision towards creating a healthy future for women and girls. The women we
will honor have made significant contributions to the health of women and girls in their own
unique ways --by ensuring the wellness of African-American women, dismantling prejudices
against people of color with AIDS, and reducing violence in the lives of women and girls.
Underwritten by Ortho Pharmeceuticals the theme of the event is ''Healthy Girls/Healthy
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Byllye Y. Avery
An advocate for women's health care for more than twenty years, Ms. Avery is the Founding
President of the NBWHP (National Black Women's Health Project), an organization committed
to defining, promoting, and maintaining the physical, mental and emotional well-being of Black
women. A dreamer, visionary, and grassroots realist, Ms. Avery has combined activism and
social responsibility in developing a national forum for the exploration of health issues of
African-American women and girls. She has helped bring to the consciousness of the AfricanAmerican community and the national public such issues as access to health care, infant
mortality, the impact of stress and violence on health. There are now chapters of the NBWHP
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Ms. Fullwood is well-known for her work in bringing the issue of AIDS as it affects people of
color to public attention. She is the founder and executive director of POCAAN (People of Color
Against Aids Network), a multiracial AIDS education coalition. POCAAN uses some of the
most innovative strategies in the country to reach and teach people of color about AIDS. A
community activist, educator, and trainer, Ms. Fullwood also shares her wisdom and
compassion by providing training on identifying and combatting racism, sexism and homophobia
to organizations throughout the country. As the Chairperson of the Ms. Foundation's Board of
Directors, Ms. Fullwood provides vision and leadership in guiding the Foundation•s Board of
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Dear Hillary,
I':¢ ~ot quite sur.e how 1t happened,. but thHr i,s the year l
turn sixty.. i 'JD no~ . sur.e how this happenea aither, but ·very
happy abpu~ i.t ..
•one of the reelsons is seeiliq you ln T:he. White Hou.~;e and in
COl'lr:Jress - younger, more spirited 1 and ,3--,a.rter ~}ian I - . . .
which is the best birthday present, for lt ma)tes 111e know the
past was v.or~h it; and the :tutu:re is qoi,nc;; to be just fine.
I wouldn't -have the. courage to try to bring these -twe>
f.gelinqs t:pge~her by invitinq you to a birthday ~vent,, vere
i:t not that the ~. · F:oundation for Women is turnl.ng it 1n:to.
a benefit to ben·efit ""omen.' s self-h'elp ef.forts all over the
country. I·· can vouch .for how good they are at cr.ea:tio9.
events ·with ·l::>otl:l:he~d and heart. They madg '1ll'J fiftieth
birthday ipto a benefit; too, complete with Bett:e.Mi(f).er
singing, an<;l I hope will do the· same with. my f~.rt.era:J, ~- vh~n
I'm past a hundred, of course - because I;m. s·o proud, ,of ~e
~ork of this nat: ional women' s fund that Le.tty Pogre);)in and I
helped to .sta-rt. From the -first battered women's shelter;s
and .the Coal EJnploYJDent Project to the lol.omen' s ec::onomic
development movement and Take Our oaugh'fers to ~ork, tl'l,e M~.
Foundation ha.s nurtured a grassroots,· multl-ra¢ial women's
movelllent.
So.the question is: could you com~ to this event on th~
of May 9th at the. Plaza Hotel in New York? We would
J:i:ke you to bo the honored guest, and to m_ake a point to the
p:ess about .the importance of the. health plan to women,
s~nce we use the health system 3 0 percent more b'e.o.au:se of,
childbearing, and have an even greater interest. Your
presence. would mean so :much ..,. no.t only to me but to ·the
ev~ni,ng
-~·
gra,s~ro9ts :Women leaders w~; bonor each year ~t this time.
"I~~:rat'·;}):()~e•~-·· ~ryin9 ,·to•. f
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In any ~ase, I hope you know that for me and millions of.
women, ¥ou're spring water after a ~~eive .Y~ar. cirougbt ..,, not
to :ment1oll a fe1.7 thousand :tears of patriarchal a~~~;rt. :r
hope Y,OU and yQu,r of:fic:e will always call on me for
ar)yth~nq, larqe or small.
.
wi~h
friendship,
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ishing pie-baking company, Joan Specter is also a
politician and serves as a member of the Philadelphia City Council. The Specters· maintain two
homes. Arlen Specter lives in a Georgetown townhouse and commutes to Philadelphia on weekends,
while his wife joins him in Washington one night
during the work week.
two or three years and then go home to my real
life,· she has recalled. "But that was a symptom of
the movement's tone at the time, which was, 'Surely, if we just explain to everybody how unjust this
is, they will want to fix it.'"
The second of the two daughters of Ruth
(Nunevillar) Steinem and Leo Steinem, Gloria
Steinem was born on March 25, 1934 in Toledo,
References: New Repub 195:15+ N 10 '85; Time
Ohio. Her father, who died in 1962, was Jewish.
130:29 S 14 '87; US News 98:26 Ap 29 '85;
and her mother, who died shortly before she would
International Who's Who, 1988-89; Politics in
have turned eighty-two, in 1980, was a Theosophist
America {1986); Who's Who in America, 1988-89;
of French Huguenot descent. Gloria Steinem is a
Who's Who in American Politics, 1987-88
full decade younger than her sister, Susanne
(Steinem) Patch. Ms. Steinem's paternal grandmother, Pauline (Mrs. Joseph) Stein em, was a protofeminist who served as president of the Ohio
Women's Suffrage Association from 1908 to 1911
and was one of the two United States delegates to
the 1908 meeting of the International Council of
Women.
As Gloria Steinem herself described him. her
charming, free-spirited father was "a truly American character." A former antiques dealer and summer resort operator, he prided himself on never
wearing a hat and never working for anyone. and
he was chronically out of money. "He was always
going to make a movie, or cut a record. or start a
new hotel. ·or come up with a new orange drink."
Ms. Steinem has recalled. In a Washington Post
profile (October 12, 1983), Elisabeth Bumiller wrote
that Gloria Steinem spent ·a lot of her childhood
in a household finance office, waiting for her fa·
ther and yet another loan." Nevertheless. she re·
members Leo Steinem as "a sentimental. kind.
childlike man." "He was wonderful,· she told Elisabeth Bumiller, "because it was like having a
friend your own age. We'd go to the movies. He
wasn't like a father. •
Gloria Steinem's early years were spent traveling around the country in a house trailer while her
itinerant father tried to make a living. In about 1946
Leo and Ruth Steinem were divorced, and Gloria
Steinem, -Gloria
went to live with her mother in Toledo. There, they ·
settled into a rat-infested basement apartment in
Mar. 25, 1934- Political activist; writer. Address:
an East Toledo slum neighborhood. and Gloria be·
Ms. Magazine, 119 W. 40th Street, New York,
gan to attend school on a regular basis for the first
N.Y. 10018
time. Although Ruth Steinem had been a capable
woman, a graduate of Oberlin College who had
NOTE: This biography supersedes the article that given up a career in journalism when she got mar·
appeared in Current Biography in 1972.
ried, she suffered her first nervous breakdown be·
fore Gloria was born. Crippled by recurrent bouts
Once considered a cultural lightweight, or the of anxiety and depression, she was unable to work:
"pinup girl of the intelligentsia," as she was called Susanne was living in another city, leaving Glona
in the late 1960s, Gloria Steinem has become part_ to become her mother's sole caretaker.
.
of the American political landscape. A founding
Gloria Stein em has been chastised for criticizing
editor of the journalistic linchpin of the American certain aspects of the traditional role of mother·
feminist movement, Ms. magazine, Gloria Steinem hood when she herself has never expressed any re·
has been a symbol of women's liberation for more gret about not having children. But as she
than fifteen years, continuing to pursue her origi- explained to Elisabeth Bumiller, "It may be true
nal career as a journalist and working tirelessly as that since I had taken care of mv mother for so
a political organizer. Although some younger wom- many years that I felt I had done th~t already. I had
en might now view her as an anachronism, for Glo- already fed and looked after and nurtured another
ria Steinem "there is nothing outside of [the human being. • "She was just a fact of life when _1
movement)." "I once thought I would do this for was growing up,· Ms. Stein em wrote in "Ruth 5
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article about her mother;
about and cared for; an in·
eyes closed and lips
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to voices only she could i
I brought an endless strea1
logna sandwiches and di:
sian of what meals shou:
intelligent, terrorized wor
To escape the drearine
home, Gloria fantasized tl
and that her real parents'
away. Her imaginary mot}
cheerful. and "unpoor, ·or
er from the Chicago Tribu
your stock central castin;
someday tap-dancing her
teenaged girl danced at ;
tered amateur-night camp
local TV talent contest. It
year of high school. wher
ton, D.C., to live with her ~
behind. In 1952 she app]i,
grades were not high, but
strength of her scores on
lions.
Free of distractions in i
celled academically, winn
election to Phi Beta Kap
year in Geneva, Switzerla
na cum laude in 1956, witi
"I loved Smith," she re.
Weekly interview (Augus
derstand women who we:
gave you three meals ada:
you wanted to read-wha
Following graduation, she
ter Bowles Asian fellowsh
sities of Delhi and Calcu·
work that she considereci
the "Radical Humanist
throughout southern Indio
vulsive social unrest. At th
!ish freelance articles in
also wrote a guide book. A
government in New Delh
Returning to the Unit
Steinem looked unsucceso
in New York City. She e\·
bridge, Massachusetts. \\
director of the Independe
offshoot of the politically :
Association, which in the
have been substantially fur
her responsibilities was ic
dents to attend Communi;
rope. In later years some 01
on the left later tried to srr
a ·ciA agent," a charge t'
nied.
Still determined to bee,
Steinem moved to New Y
she landed a job with Hel,1
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go home to my real
at was a symptom of
te, which was. 'Sure:Jody how unjust this
daughters of Ruth
eo Steinem. Gloria
25, 1934 in Toledo.
in 1962, was Jewish.
~tly before she would
:o, was a Theosophist
Gloria Steinem is a
.1er sister, Susanne
,n's paternal grandSteinem. was a pro:sident of the Ohio
.1 from 1908 to 1911
j States delegates to
national Council of
described him, her
was "a truly Ameri~Ies dealer and surnJ himself on never
ing for anyone, and
ey. "He was always
: a record, or start a
new orange drink. •
a Washington Post
beth Bumiller wrote
.ot of her childhood
. waiting for her fa·evertheless, she resentimental. kind.
terful, • she told Eliwas like having a
' to the movies. He
; were spent traveltse trailer while her
living. In about 1946
ivorced. and Gloria
Toledo. There, they
:ment apartment in
ood. and Gloria bear basis for the first
1ad been a capable
1 College who had
. when she got mar·ous breakdown be·
\ by recurrent bouts
was unable to work;
city, leaving Gloria
tretaker.
stised for criticizing
1al role of mother·
~r expressed any re·
dren. But as she
er, "It may be true
f my mother for so
e that already. I had
1d nurtured another
, fact of life when I
n wrote in "Ruth's
Song (Because She Could Not Sing It). • her moving
article about her mother: "someone to be worried
about and cared for; an invalid who lay in bed with
eyes closed and lips moving in occasional response
to voices only she could hear; a woman to whom
I brought an endless stream of toast and coffee, bologna sandwiches and dime pies. in a child's version of what meals should be. She was a loving,
intelligent. terrorized woman . . . . •
To escape the dreariness and pain of her life at
home. Gloria fantasized that she had been adopted
and that her real parents would come and take her
away. Her imaginary mother and father were calm,
cheerful, and "unpoor. • or as she told an interviewer from the Chicago Tribune (October 2, 1983), "just
your stock central casting parents.· Dreaming of
someday tap-dancing her way out of Toledo, the
teenaged girl danced at the local Elks Club, en·
tered amateur-night competitions, and even won a
local TV talent contest. It was not until her senior
year of high school. when she moved to Washington. D.C., to live .,..;th her sister, that she left Toledo
behind. In 1952 she applied to Smith College. Her
grades were not high. but she was admitted on the
strength of her scores on the entrance examinations.
Free of distractions in her personal life, she excelled academically, winning scholarships, gaining
election to Phi Beta Kappa, spending her junior
year in Geneva, Switzerland, and graduating magna cum laude in 1956, with a major in government.
"I loved Smith.· she remarked in a Publishers
Weekly interview (August 12, 1983). "I couldn't understand women who were not happy there. They
gave you three meals a day to eat, and all the books
you wanted to read-what more could you want?"
Following graduation, she went to India on aChester Bowles Asian fellowship to study at the universities of Delhi and Calcutta. Subjected to course
work that she considered "pointless, • she joined
the "Radical Humanist" group and traveled
throughout southern India during a period of convulsive social unrest. At that time she began to publish freelance articles in Indian newspapers and
also wrote a guide book. A Thousand Indios, for the
government in New Delhi.
Returning to the United States in 1958, Ms.
Steinem looked unsuccessfully for a reporting job
in New York City. She eventually settled in Cambridge, Massachusetts, where she became codirector of the Independent Research Service, an
offshoot of the politically liberal National Student
Association, which in the 1960s was revealed to
have been substantially funded by the CIA. One of
her responsibilities was to recruit American students to attend Communist youth festivals in Europe. In later years some of her political opponents
on the left later tried to smear her for having been
a "CIA agent,· a charge that she vehemently denied.
Still determined to become a journalist, Gloria
Stein em moved to New York City in 1960, .where
she landed a )ob With' Help!, tiie'bartoonist H~i-vey
Kurtzman's magazine of political satire, as a writer
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of photo captions and as a liaison with the celebrities chosen to appear on its covers. As Kurtzman
told a Washington Post interviewer (October 12,
1983), "She would just pick up the phone and talk
to people, and charm them out of the trees. . . . I
was probably in love with her back then, just like
everyone else.· She gained modest recognition for
her first published article, a 1962 piece on the sexual revolution for Esquire magazine called "The
Moral Disarmament of Betty Coed.· One of her observations was especially prescient, since it anticipated a contradiction that the women's movement
would later have to address. "The real danger of
the contraceptive revolution, • she wrote. "may be
the acceleration of woman's role-change without
any corresponding change of man's attitude toward
her role.·
In 1963 Ms. Stein em published "I was a Playboy
Bunny, • a dryly witty expose for the now defunct
Show magazine about her experiences while
working undercover as a bushy-tailed, scantily
clad waitress at Hugh Hefner's Playboy Club in
midtown Manhattan. Her byline began to appear
frequently on feature articles for such magazines
as Vogue, Glamour, McCall's, and Cosmopolitan.
In the middle of the decade of radical chic, Gloria
Steinem herself became a minor celebrity. She
championed the "right" causes and was seen at all
the "right" places with the "right" men, including
such companions as Ted Sorenson, Mike Nichols,
and John Kenneth Galbraith. It was with one of her
trendy friends, the film director and screenwriter
Robert Benton, who was then an art director for
Esquire, that she collaborated to produce The
Beach Book (Viking, 1963), a coffee-table picture
book dedicated to the frivolous art of basking in the
sun. During the television season of 1964-65, she
worked as a scriptwriter for That Was the Week
That Was, the highly regarded show of topical satire that was aired by the NBC-TV network.
In 1968 Gloria Stein em made the transition from
writing about glitzy celebrities and sun-drenched
beaches to chronicling the grittier realities of the
political scene when the publisher Clay S. Felker
assigned her a weekly column, "The City Politic, •
in his recently launched venture, New York magazine. Combining advocacy journalism with political activism, she accompanied Cesar Chavez on his
Poor People's March in California; served as trea·
surer for the Committee for the Legal Defense of
Angela Davis; supported Eugene McCarthy's insurgent campaign for the Democratic presidential
nomination in. 1968, though she later switched her
allegiance to Robert F. Kennedy; and backed Norman Mailer in his quixotic run for the mayoralty of
New York City.
Despite her involvement in those causes, the
mainstream media still tended to regard Ms. Steinem as the Hildy Johnson of Manhattan political
and journalistic circles-intriguing and smart but
in the end frivolously marginal. For instance, in .
1969 a Time magazine scribe patronizingly called
her "one of the best dates to take to a New York
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worthy of her miniskirts, and a brain that keeps
conversation lively without getting tricky." According to Elisabeth Bumiller, Ms. Stein em "prefers 'to
remember her prefeminist life as more schizophrenic than trendy."
Gloria Steinem was jolted into feminism in November 1968, when she attended a meeting called
by the Redstockings, a radical women's group. To
prqtest an official state hearing on New York's
abortion laws, the Redstockings had asked women
to discuss the illegal abortions to which they had
been forced to resort. "I had had an abortion when
I was newly out of college and told no one,· Ms.
Steinem recalled in her talk with Miriam Berkley
for Publishers Weekly. "If one in three adult women shares this experience, why should each of us
be made to feel criminal and alone?" And as she
has written, "Suddenly, I was no longer learning
intellectually what was wrong. I knew. • Ms. Stein·
em's resulting article was ·After Black Power,
Women's Liberation," her first openly feminist essay. At that time she began to reconsider her "own
capitulation to all the small humiliations" and to
read "every piece of feminist writing [she] could lay
[her] hands on. •
With her ability to articulate the goals of the
women's movement, her glamour. and her trenchant sense of humor, Gloria Steinem quickly became one of feminism's "superstars." She became
popular on the lecture circuit and on TV talk
shows, even though she suffered from what she
termed "an almost pathological fear of speaking in
public, • which she has since overcome. More im·
portant, she did not appear to possess the feminist
rage that discomfited unradicalized men and worn·
en. As Clay S. Felker obseiVed. "Some women
come into my office armed with their new philosophy and they radiate hostility. Gloria brings. the
good news that it's going to make your life better."
In matters of political organization. by July 1971
Gloria Steinem had joined with Betty Friedan. Bella Abzug, and Congresswoman Shirley Chisholm
to found the National Women's Political Caucus
(NWPC), which encouraged women to run for po·
litical office. She had also helped to establish the
Women's Action Alliance, a tax-exempt organiza·
tion geared for mobilizing nonwhite, non-middleclass women and men to combat social and economic forms of discrimination. It was also in 1971
that Ms. Stein em had begun to explore the possibil·
ity of creating a new kind of magazine for women,
one that would reflect the emerging feminist con·
sciousness and be fully owned, operated, and edited by women. With the initial financial and
promotional help of Clay S. Felker, Ms. Steinem,
as editor, and Pat Carbine, as editor in chief and
publisher, produced Ms., a thirty-page sample
magazine that appeared as an insert of the December 1971 issue of New York.
The first complete issue of Ms., financed and
promoted by New York magazine, hit the newsstands in January of 1972 and was labeled the
"Spring" edition because the staff did not know
when or how the next issue would be published.
However, that issue, which included a full-page
petition for safe and legal abortions signed by over
fifty prominent women who had had abortions,
including Gloria Steinem, sold out its first 300,000
copies in eight days. Financed by a Warner Com·
munications investment of $1 million. Ms. became
a monthly magazine in the summer of 1972. Featur·
ing early articles with titles like "Why Women Fear
Success, • "Down With Sexist Upbringing,· and
"Can Women Love Women?" Ms. had attracted a
monthly following of some 500,000 readers by the
mid-1970s.
When the Equal Rights Amendment passed
Congress in 1972, Ms. Steinem. like most feminist
leaders. took to the hustings and lobbied with state
legislators throughout the country for its passage.
The ERA was never ratified, but even before its
defeat the women's movement had gone through a
period of ideological strife and internecine war·
fare. As the former New York Times editor A.M.
Rosenthal has noted, the feminist movement "is not
played with bean bags.· Some Marxist and lesbian
sects on its left wing repudiated the whole idea of
"equal rights" and middle-class feminist assimila"
lion, vilifying Ms. Steinem and her magazine as
mouthpieces for "backsliding bourgeois feminism."
The Redstockings, in parcticular. singled out Ms.
Steinem for attack, dredging up the pseudo-issue of
her past involvement \\;than organization that had
been funded covertly by the CIA. The campaign to
ostracize Gloria Steinem from the women's move·
ment because of her alleged former ties to the CIA
reached a crescendo when a Village Voice colum·
nist, writing in the May 21, 1979 issue. darkly hint·
ed that she might have prevailed upon Random
House to delete a chapter entiled "Gloria Steinem
and the CIA" from The Feminist Revolution, a col·
lection of essays by writers affiliated with the Red·
stockings. Steinem's denials of complicity in CIA
chicanery were eventually accepted as truthful.
but the "Steinem controversy" prompted the semi·
nal contemporary American feminist, Betty Frie·
dan, to offer her faint praise, saying. "Gloria's
contribution was welcome and good. although it's
not part of the mainstream of the movement."
While continuing to edit Ms., Gloria Steinem
-was one ofthe,commissioners appointed in 1977 by
President Jimmy Carter to the National Committee
on the ObseiVance of International Women's Year
(IWY). That same year she was also award~d. a
Woodrow Wilson Scholarship to study femmist
theory at the Woodrow Wilson International Cen·
ter for Scholars. Giving generously of her time to
progressive political organizations. Ms. Stein~m
has quipped that if her fate was to become a dis·
possessed woman, she would suiVive-.by
"organizing the other bag ladies. • Since the mid·
1970s, she has participated in the founding of such
groups as the Coalition of Labor Union Women.
Voters for Choice, Women Against Pornography.
and Women USA.
In the 1980s the
ment entered its thir
stage" of the movem•
for reform, Ms. Stei
compassionate.
the home . . . . We
completing ourselve'
the groundwork for
past two decades. br
structural innovation
cept the idea of equal
of equal pay, • she s.
"We accept the idea
have the possibility .
choice. We don't eve
of just maternity lea'
. shorter workday or 1
Gloria Steinem c•
that when the goals o
ized. men will at last
come whole people."
thus far failed to "est
should do 'women's:
serted. Consequent]:
equal responsibility f
social patterns of a·
"Until men raise inL
women do," she ha.
women-will all grr
women as the overwi
nal experince associa
we will all define g
from women." Ms. S·
movement will now I
tive rights-the right
have an abortion. and
erotic partnerships. A
will sex be seen as or
which is the stand ta
One of the recent m
been at pains to de bu.
superwoman, the ide,
magazines, that says.
it in People magazine
be a nuclear physicis
have three charming
and the perfect wif,
"ridiculous" and ber
men, who do not wa1
be disturbed.
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the staff did not know.
1e would be published.
h included a- full-page
bortions signed by over
ho had had abortions
:old out its first 300,000
:ed by a Warner Com>1 million, Ms. became
·.tmmer of 1972. Featurike "Why Women Fear
dst Upbringing,· and
?" Ms. had attracted a
jQO,OOO readers by the
Amendment passed
,m, like most feminist
\nd lobbied with state
untry for its passage.
. but even before its
11 had gone through a
nd internecine war' Times editor A. M.
list movement "is not
Marxist and lesbian
'd the whole idea of
:s feminist assimilald her magazine as
ourgeois feminism.·
lar, singled out Ms.
'the pseudo-issue of
·ganization that had
A. The campaign to
che women's move,·mer ties to the CIA
illage Voice colum' issue, darkly hintled upon Random
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dpted as truthful,
·ompted the semininist, Betty Frie·
saying, "Gloria's
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[n the 1980s the contemporary feminist movement entered its third decade, and as the "second
stage" of the movement has put forward its agenda
for reform. Ms. Steinem is still a role model for
voung women, a kind of "adventurous aunt who in~pires others to follow her off the high diving
board.· as Newsweek (June 4, 1984) put it. Gloria
Steinem agrees with the thinker Rollo May that
there are three historical stages-the formation of
a mvth, its period of social authority, and its dissolution-and she believes that in the current era old
mvths about women and men are breaking down.
The newly emerging values, she insists. will be
more humanistic. "The goal now is to complete
ourselves,· she told Esquire. "Progress for women
lies in becoming more assertive, more ambitious,
more able to deal with conflict. ... Progress for
men will lie in becoming more empathetic, more
compassionate, more comfortable working inside
the home . . . . We're not trading places. We're just
completing ourselves.· According to Ms. Stein em,
the groundwork for social change was laid in the
past two decades, but in feminism's second stage,
structural innovations will be emphasized. "We accept the idea of equal pay; we don't have the reality
of equal pay,· she said in the Esquire interview.
"We accept the idea of equal parenthood; we don't
have the possibility of equal parenthood as a real
choice. We don't even have parental leave instead
of just maternity leave, much less the chance of a
shorter workday or week for both parents.
Gloria Steinem continues to belie.ve fervently
that when the goals of women's liberation are realized. men will at last "have the opportunity to become whole people.· However, the movement has
thus far failed to "establish the principle that men
should do 'women's jobs,'" as Ms. Steinem has asserted. Consequently, until men begin to take
equal responsibility for child rearing, she fears that
social patterns of authority will go unchanged.
"Until men raise infants and children as much as
women do, • she has explained, "we-men and
women-will all grow up fearing the power of
women as the overwhelming, visceral, and irrational experince associated with childhood. And thus
we will all define growing up as growing away
from women.· Ms. Stein em has promised that the
movement will now begin to emphasize reproductive rights-the right to have children, the right to
have an abortion, and the right to engage in homoerotic partnerships. As she told Esquire, "No longer
will sex be seen as only a way of having children,
which is the stand taken by the Moral Majority."
One of the recent myths that Gloria Steinem has
been at pains to debunk is that of the overachieving
superwoman, the idea, often promoted in women's
magazines, that says, as Ms. Steinem paraphrased
it in People magazine (June 23, 1980), "Yes, you can
be a nuclear physicist or a plumber providing you
have three charming children, are a gourmet cook
and the perfect wife.· She views that myth as
"ridiculous" and beneficial only to conservative
men, who do not want the basic order of things to
be disturbed.
In 1983 Gloria Steinem published Outrageous
Ac-.s and Everyday Rebellions (Holt}, a collection
of essays. magazine articles, and diary jottings that
she had written over two decades. The book included "I Was a Playboy Bunny" and the acclai:::ned "Ruth's Song" as well as articles on
"sis:ers· as diverse as Marilyn Monroe. Patricia
Nixon. Linda Lovelace, and Jacqueline Onassis. In
the .\'ew York Times Book Review (September 4.
1983L Diane Johnson asserted that "one is struck by
(the; intelligence. restraint and common sense (of
her assays), as well as by the energetic and invol\-ed life they reflect. • But in the Washington
Pos:: Book World (October 9, 1983), Angela Carter
com;Jlained that "there is. throughout the essays, a
curious blindness to history-to the economic
force:s that created the conditions for the emancipaticil of women in industrialized countries in the
nine:eenth century, and the way those same forces
have determined the nature of the struggle since
then-·
CoJaborating with the photographer George
Barr'..3. in 1986 Ms. Steinem published Marilyn
(Hoit'~ a biography of the late film star Marilyn
Mon.""Je. While writing it. she felt "empathy and
conn e-:ted ·to the motion picture sex goddess: "The
things that happened to her were things the women ·s ::::o\·ement has tried to prevent. • In the New
York ~imes Book Review (December 21, 1986}, Diana Trilling called Marilyn "a quiet" and
"well-researched" book. having "none of the sensationalism that has colored other purportedly serious books about the film star, Norman Mailer's in
partin:.lar. ·Gloria Steinem is also the author of the
introd·.:ction to The Decade of Women (Putnam,
1980). a collection of photographs with news bulletins ar:ci text celebrating events in recent feminist
history_ Her "I Was a Playboy Bunny" article
serveC. as the basis for A Bunny's Tale, a made-for·
TV mo-.ie broadcast in 1985 over the ABC network.
Altho~ she was offended by the smarmy pun of
the sho·,,··s title, she approved of the 5cript and the
casting ·Jf actress Kirstie Alley as the young Gloria
Steinec.
In :SS7. the fifteenth anniversary of Ms., the
magazi=e was sold to john Fairfax, Ltd., a large
Au.strai..:an communications conglomerate, for an
undisci:::sed price rumored to be in the neighborhood oi S15 million. Since 1979, Ms. had been operated c..s a tax-exempt foundation. and in recent
years tl:e monthly readership has taperedoff to
about '*""lOOO, 10 percent of whom are men. Ms.
has "suf:ered from operating losses and from a decline in .:dvertising pages as a growing number of
[women ·s] publications began to address the subjects on ·.·.-hich it was a pioneer, • according to a report in ~e New York Times (September 24, 1987}.
Gloria Steinem and Patricia Carbine did not profit
directly ::-om the magazine's sale, but each will be
paid abc::! S200,000 to serve for five years as consultants rJ .Ms., which will continue to espouse the
philosop~· of the feminist cause. However, in the
aftermati: of an internal takiwver thatleft Fairfax
Publicatle>ns in the control of politically conserva·
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545
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tive owners, the conglomerate announced in 1988
that Ms. would be sold, leaving the magazine's future in doubt.
Although she celebrated her fiftieth birthday in
1984, Gloria Steinem is still chic, glamorous, and
enviably svelte. She told People (November 21,
1983) that she has not "faced the inevitable problem of age yet.· "I've never been in a hospital,·
Gloria Steinem remarked, "and I have more energy
~han ever. • She has admitted to being a "sugar
junkie, • but manages to stay in trim without strenuous dieting or following an exercise regimen, although she walks a lot and loves to go dancing. "If
I look good, • she told People, "it's probably genes,
plus the gift of having work that I care about. Women who have mental stimulation every day actually
age up to ten years less, physiologically, than more
isolated women do. . . . Revolution may keep us
young."
In a culture besotted with celebrities and celebrity-watchers, Gloria Steinem maintains a very
high profile. Nonetheless, she is reluctant to disclose the intimate details of her personal life. "It's·
a tremendous feat .... "wrote Garrison Keillor in
the Washington Post Book World (September 18,
1983), "a decade of chastity in the face of seductive
attention, a refusal to chit-chat or to let us in on her
life, her romances . . . . Not only does she not say,
she makes no great show of not saying. She simply
speaks her piece in behalf of women, and moves
on." Although always on the go, she seems to keep
her day-to-day routine simple. "I never saved a
penny until this year, • she told People in 1983, "and
I've never owned a car. My only property is a tworoom apartment.· It is unlikely that she will ever
settle into marriage, for as Ms. Steinem has said,
she cannot "mate in captivity." Recently Ms. Steinem signed lucrative contracts with Random House,
to write a book about women born into families of
inherited wealth, and with Little, Brown, to write
The Bedside Book of Self-Esteem. She has also
been hired by Random House as a contributing editor, with responsibilities in the areas of book acquisition, editorial policy, and marketing.
References: Chicago Tribune XV pl+ 0 2 '83
pors; Christian Sci Man p21+ Mr 16 '84 pors,
p29+ Te 30 '87 por; N Y Newsday II p3 fa 18 '88
por; New York 19:50+ Ag 25 '86; People 13:30+ fe
23 '80 pars; Who's Who in America, 1988-89
May 12, 1936- Artist. Address: c/o Leo Castelli
Gallery, 420 W. Broadway, New York, N.Y.
10012
NOTE: This biography supersedes the article that
appeared in Current Biography in 1971.
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Stella, Frank (Philip)
Widely acknowledged to be the most accomplished
abstract painter of his generation, Frank Stella won
renown when he was only twenty-three with a
group of austere black pin-stripe paintings that
prepared the way for minimalism, the leading
avant-garde style of the later 1960s. As the critic
Kay Larson has observed, "Stella risks more and
thinks harder and pushes himself further out into
the void than any [other) living artist." In the 1970s
Stella made the transition from proto-minimalism
to baroque "maximal ism, • fashioning undulating
forms in hot colors that anticipated the rise of graf.· .. Aiti,,art l!nd,ne();~xpressionism in th~ 1~80s. Since
the mid-1980s, the ambitious Stella has been attempting to revitalize abstraction, which he believes to be mired in a state of profound crisis.
Whereas the very young Stella had driven illusionist ·space from the two-dime"nsional plane of the
canvas, he now takes formal elements like lines,
curves, cones, and cylinders and projects them
dramatically into the three-dimensional space of
the room. He hopes that those enormous sculptural
reliefs will restore the virtues of "structural
inventiveness" and "picture building" to the enter·
prise of creating abstract art.
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Frank Philip Stella was born in Malden, Massa·
chusetts, a working-class town about five miles
north of Boston, on May 12, 1936. He is the oldest
of the three children born to first-generation Italian Americans, Dr. Frank Stella, a gynecologist
whose parents had emigrated from Sicily, and his
wife, Constance, who was of Calabrian descent.
While attending public schools in Malden, Frank
Stella proved to be an unruly adolescent who al-
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the writer recalled to a Time intPnriA,,_
ary 3, 1969). "He never wore a hat, and
had a job. He was always going to make a
or cut a record, or start a new hotel, or com
with a new orange drink." When Gloria ~e
References
or twelve her parents were divorced, and she and ,,,
N Y Sunday News p96 D 8 '63 pars
her mother settled in Toledo, where her mother~.,:·._
N Y Times p25 Ja 18 '72
.resumed newspaper reporting, the career she bad :t'
Sports lllus 35:31 + D 6 '71 pors
followed before the birth of her children.
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In Tole~o Gloria went to school regularly ~"~'-'
17 '72 pars
the first tune, tap danced at the ~lks club, and. "...
Washington (D.C.) Post D p1 Ja 18 '72
won a local TV contest. Yet her life there
· -· .·
by her accounts, extremely depressing. Living~ · -~.
rat-infested house in a slum neighborhood, she ·
STEINEM, GLORIA
would, according to one friend, "wake up at night
a~d pull he; toes in underne!th he~ in case they
Mar. 25, 1936(?)- Journalist; feminist leader might be bitten off by rats. Durmg her senior ·
Address: c/o Sterling Lord Agency, 660 Madi- year in high school she left and went to live wfth.
son Ave., New York 10021
her sister in Washington.
Although her school grades were low, Misl
Probably the most persuasive publicist for the Steinem was admitted to Smith College after her
growing feminist movement in the United States
graduation from a Washington high school in 1952
is Gloria Steinem, an articulate and attractive on the strength of her outstanding performance In
New York magazine writer, lecturer, and television the entrance examinations. Entering Smith on
personality. After gaining a modest reputation as money that her mother obtained from selling the
a free-lance women's magazine writer and chic house in Toledo, Gloria proved to be an excepyoung woman-about-town during the mid-1960's,
tional student, who won scholarships, earned elecMiss Steinem proved her ability as a political and tion to Phi Beta Kappa, and graduated mag114
social critic as soon as she began writing her cum laude with a major in government.
lively, opinionated column, entitled The City PoliAfter receiving the B.A. degree in 1956, Miss
tic, for New York magazine in 1968. Late that Steinem left for India on a Chester Bowles Asian
year she began devoting much of her time and fellowship and studied for two years at the unienergy to the women's liberation movement, and versities of Delhi and Calcutta. When she returned
since that time has written and spoken widely on to the United States, she was filled with a ·cru·
its concerns. Her most ambitious project to date
sading zeal to make this country aware of what
is the launching of a nontraditional women's magwas going on in Asia." After searching unsuccess·
azine devoted to raising the consciousness of fully for a reporting job she became director of
American women. Entitled Ms. (pronounced the Independent Research Service in Cambridge,
"Miz"), the title preferred by feminists because Massachusetts, a partially CIA-funded offshoot of
it does not denote marital status, the new maga- the National Student Association. For that organ!·
zine first appeared on the newsstands in January zation she rallied American students to attend
1972, after a special preview of it was included Communist Youth festivals in Europe and directed
in the December 20, 1971 issue of New York a press service for foreign journalists.
magazine.
In 1960 Gloria Steinem came to New York
Gloria Steinem is the younger daughter of Ruth
intent upon launching a career as a writer. She
( Nuneviller) Steinem and the late Leo Steinem. completed several unsigned writing assignments
She was born in Toledo, Ohio, and her birthdate for Esquire before earning her first by-lin~ in the
is listed in Who's Who in America as March 25,
magazine's 1962 college issue with an article on
1936. (Several magazine articles suggest an earlier the sexual revolution entitled "The Moral Dis·
date of birth, and in the October 1971 issue of armament of Betty Coed." Anticipating. a probEsquire Leonard Levitt wrote that she was born lem that the women's liberation movement was to
on March 25, 1934.) Miss Steinem's father, who point out years later, Miss Steinem wrote in that
died in 1962, wa~ Jewish, and her mother is of article, ''The problem is that many girls who deFrench Huguenot descent. Her sister Susanne, who pend on the roles of wife and mother for their
is ten years her senior, is married to Robert Patch, total identity are now being pressured into ~al'!
a Washington, D.C. lawyer, and they have six they can't handle and jobs they pretend to hke.
children. Miss Steinem is the granddaughter of
The Esquire piece led to her llrs{bjg ign·
Pauline (Mrs. Joseph) Steinem, an early feminist ment, for which she disguised ~er identity d
who served as president of the Ohio Women's
obtained a job as a Bunny in the),New York Pia;
Suffrage Association from 1908 to 1911 and was boy Club. After a month as one ~f J:I~gh He
s
one of two United States delegates to the 1908 furry-tailed waitresses she wrote a...Jilla ·
meeting of the International Council of Women. part expose of Playboy Club operati
for Shoto
Leo Steinem was an itinerant antique dealer magazine in 1963. Subsequently her by-line began
and summer resort operator, whose family followed
appearing with increasing frequency in such;n.a·
him around the country in a trailer during Gloria's tiona! publications as Vogue, Glamour, McC 1•
412.
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�.~t~z~
~~d h~o poi~ts of pri~.. •
zme mterviewer ( Janu·ore a hat, and he n~
going to make a movte.
new hotel, or come up
' When Gloria was ten
l divorced, and she and
edo, where her mother
ing, the career she had
of her children.
to school regularly for
. at the Elks club, and
her life there was,
depressing. Living in 1
~.eighborhood,
she
wake up at night
•Iut::«uJ her in case they
During her senior
and went to live \vith
government.
degree in 1956, Miss
Chester Bowles Asian
two years at the unl·
When she returned
filled with a "cru·
aware of what
searching unsuccess·
became director of
in Cambridge,
offshoot of
For that organ!·
students to at.tend
Europe and directed
journalists.
came to New York
as a writer. She
writing assignments
first by-line in the
with an article on
"The Moral Dis·
a prob·
ffiOIVeJTieJat was to
wrote in that
girls who demother for their
pressured into affairs
they pretend to like:
her first big assign·
her identity and
the New York Play·
of Hugh Hefner's
a hilarious twOnnerano:ns for ShoW
her by-line began
=r.,,,n,~nc~v in such na·
Glnmour, McCalfl,
. ·~· Home ]oumal, Life, and Cosmopolitan.
1·al /.JL.!clition to her magazme
.
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assignmen
1.n .'1 ~m worked as a script writer for the NBC-
:.~:~n how That Was the Week That Was in 19641•. \d collaborated with a designer and illustrator
'rhe
Beach Book (Viking, 1963), a not very
~·,~~ions picture book dedicated to the fine art of
'"n worshiping. The Be?ch B~ok ha_s a ,preface
t·o
;,,. John Kenneth Galbraith, Miss Stemem s lon~
:,~11~ friend who has, according to Leonard LeVItt
;:; Esquire, called her one of the three most
1tant women he has met in recent years.
-\!though her work was always in demand dur:. 1,; the mid-1960's, Gloria Steinem was generally
'.' .:tricted to the kind of light, women's-magazine;,';icntcd assignments th~t included pieces on. pop
,·nlture, movie stars, smgers, and an occasiOnal
. uthor. At the same time she became a minor
1
·, 0 p celebrity in her own right, who was featured
I fa!; hi on magazme
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sprea ds and'm woman's page
;·,·ports of opening nights at which she appeared
in the company of one or another of her famous
h-ans, like. Mike Nichols, Paul Desmond, or Ted
'i11rcnson .
. When the weekly glossy magazine New York
was established in the spring of 1968, its editor
C:lav Felker hired Gloria Steinem as a contributinl! ·editor with the understanding that she would
1>~ free to write about sociology and politics. She
<non wrote a lively piece called "Notes on the
\'cw Marriage," about unions between dominatin~ women and homosexual men, and she establi<hed a column called The City Politic, in which
<he began airing her personal impressions of
politics and befriending her favorite candidates
:1111! causes.
Earlv in the 1968 Presidential race Gloria Stein··m c1;dorsed Eugene McCarthy's bid for the
Democratic nomination, but she later developed
rnis~ivings about McCarthy and switched her
:rlle~iance to Robert Kennedy, explaining to her
.\'l'rv York readers that "McCarthy thought more
.rhn11t McCarthy than he did about the Presid•·ncy." At the Democratic convention, Miss Stein•·ln was often seen on the floor dealing with
d,·l··~ates or sitting in on party. conclaves, as well
'" preparing material for her column. As an ob«n·er, she traveled with the Republican campai~n caravan for a time in September 1968. In
lrcr column she wrote a negative assessment of
Richard Nixon as a candidate, but it was her
interview with Mrs. Patricia Nixon, in which
the candidate's wife abandoned her usual reserve
:rnrl lost her temper, that gained notoriety. In the
pages of New York Miss Steinem related Mrs.
\ixon';;-x,utburst, quoting her as saying, ''I've
n"'W hall time to worry about who I admire or
"'hn I identify with. I've never had it easy. I'm
nnt ljVe all yo~ . . . all those people who had
It sp easy." 'ii am not a hostile interviewer,"
Clnr!a Steine~ tol~ a Ne'?sweek .in~erview~r
I :\ngust 16, !971) m recalling the mc1dent. I
~~'as ~rying to get through to her, to show her
I hat \ve-haC:l very similar childhoods. But she
didn't want to know that. . , , I was just trying
to make contact, and she got angry."
;:npo
GLORIA STEINEM
Gloria Steinem has steadfastly oppo~ed the war
1n Indochina, the Republican party, and most
New York politicos. An inveterate crusader, she
has in recent years supported, both in and out
of her New York column, author Norman Mailer's
unsuccessful bid for the mayoralty of New York
City in 1968, the Presidential aspirations of Demo·
cratic Senator George McGovern, and a host of
minority groups and underdogs including Cesar
Chavez' grape pickers, Angela Davis, the Black
Panthers, the Young Lords, the Eskimos, and the
Indians.
Miss Steinem's involvement in the women's
liberation movement began in November 1968
when she attended a meeting of a New York
City women's group called the Redstockings to
get material for her New York column. As a
result she wrote an article on the then-nascent
movement that won a Penney-Missouri Magazine
award, but even more important she herself
enlisted under its banner. ''I'd always understood
what made me angry about the Playboy Club
or the double standard or not being able to do
political Writing or being sent out for coffee,"
she told the Newsweek interviewer in 1971. "But
I didn't realize it was a group problem. Before
that Redstockings meeting, I had thought that
my personal problems and experiences were my
own and not part of a larger political problem."
In Miss Steinem's view the political problem is
that men, consciously or unconsciously, perpetuate the subjugation of women for economic and
social gain.
·
Soon Miss Steinem became one of the feminist movement's busiest proselytizers through fundraising, speaking at college campuses and before
women's groups, and introducing the general public to feminist concerns by means of her writing
and her appearances on TV talk shows. Within
the movement itself she became a mediator, organizer, and speech writer. In 1970 she was one
of five women who helped Betty Friedan to plan
strategy for the August Woman's Strike for Equality, the movement's first national show of
strength. Along with Mrs. Friedan and Congress-
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413
�women Shirley Chisholm and Bella Abzug, Miss
Steinem founded the National Women's Political
Caucus (NWPC) in July 1971. Designed to
mobilize women's political power, the NWPC encourages women to run for political office and endorses those candidates of either sex who support
women's rights. Also in 1971 Steinem helped to set
up and became a board member of the Women's
Act~on . Alliance, a tax-exempt, nonpolitical organiZation that seeks a broad-based membership,
including men and non-middle-class, non-white
women. At a press conference in January 1972,
she announced that the new group would support
"projects that attack the special problems of social dependence, discrimination, and limited life
alternatives" that women face "because they are
women."
While. the Women's Action Alliance was being
set up, Miss Steinem began sounding out women
about the possibility of founding a new kind of
women's magazine that would, as she later char-.
acterized it, serve as a "how to" magazine "for
the liberated female human being-not how to
make jelly but how to seize control of your life."
The result was Ms., which unlike its traditional
c~unteTI;~arts is owned and operated by women,
wtth Mtss Steinem as editor and Pat Carbine as
editor in chief and publisher. Its first issue, Spring
1972, was financed and promoted by New York
~a~azine, but w~en the magazine began pubhshmg monthly, m the summer of 1972, it was
financed b:>: Warner . Communications, formerly
known as Kinney Servtees, Inc. The first issue featured articles with such titles as "Down With Sexist
Upbringing," ''Why Women Fear Success" "How
to Write Your Own Marriage Contract:" "The
Black Family and Feminism," "Welfare is a
Women's Issue," and "Can Women Love Women?" Also . in the issue was a list of over fifty
women in public life, including Gloria Steinem,
who went on record as declaring that they have
had one or more abortions.
Often called the "glamour girl" of the women's
liberation movement, Gloria Steinem is tall and
well-proportioned, with a pretty face and long,
blond-streaked brown hair. She dresses in a styli~h mod mann~; and usually wears large, bluetmted glasses. H you don't want to be a sex
object, you have to make yourself unattractive "
she complained to the Newsweek interviewer in
1971. "But I'm not going to walk around in
Army boots and cut off my hair." When she does
feel herself being treated like a sex object, shE' is
capable of expressing her rage succinctly. Hearing
t~at .Secretary of State William P. Rogers had
dtsmtssed her as an "old girl .friend" of President
Nixon's aide, Henry A. Kissinger, Miss Steinem
released a statement declaring, "I am not now
a.nd n~.ver have been a girl friend of Henry Kissmger.
Miss Steinem has, in fact, been seen in the
company of Kissinger as well as many other
eligible bachelors, and she has had what she calls
a "series of little marriages" with several men.
Conventional marriage, however, does not appeal
to her, and she is doubtful about ever wanting
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to have a child. Capable of pleasantries .1t 1
own expense, Miss Steinem evoked lan~d~t .' • :··:
~anuary _1972 meeting of the National Pre~'r /;, :·
m Wash~gton, D.C. ~hen she was present<:<!;.:.:,
the t~adtt~onal sp~aker s gift of a tie. Clad f 11 r ·t·i ,.
occaston m blue Jeans, the feminist said "I
pose I could put, it on and wear a ia~kd '.:~;:;
c.onfirm ~ver~b~dy s worst suspicions of me· ... ·!:.::
stdes bemg mvt~ed to speak before the l\ati"'':
Press Club, ~ntll recently all-male, 'Miss St•·i:,.·:
was honored m January 1972 as McCall's "'""' ,.
of the Year.
·
References
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N Y Post p21 Ja 8 '72 por
Newsweek 78:51 + Ag 16 '71 pors
Time 93:38 Ja 3 '69 por
Washington (D.C.) Post K p6 + !) :\ ·r:·:
por
Who's Who in America 1970-71
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Wh o•s Who of American
STONE, !(SIDOR) F(EINSTEIN)
Dec. 24, 1907- Journalist; author
Address: b. c/o New York Review of !11111\:-..
250 W. 57th St., New York 10019
The veteran gadfly journalist I. F. Stone has 1w•·ll
characterized by Henry Steele Commager in tlw
Ne~ York Review of Books (Decem bet~ 5, I ur;s \
as a modem Tom Paine, celebrating Conll"'"'
Sense and the Rights of Man, hammerin[!: aw:~:-·
at tyranny, injustice, exploitation, deception, ""'!
chicanery." A journalist since his teens, Stmw j,
a veteran of such bulwarks of the liberal prt's< a·.
the Nation and the long defunct PM. Fm mw
teen years he published his independent !'''" · ·
~etter,_I. F. Stone's Weekly (later the Bi-W!:.·i:!"'·
m which he spoke his mind on virtually anv sn1•
ject, and since its demise at the end of 1~ii 1 h··
has been contributing editor of the New Yor 1.
Review of Books. Although Stone has aimed h'·
barbs primarily at the establishment, he has, "'
Henry Allen of the Washington Post ( Dccr!lllw:
7, 1971) put it, "managed to annoy some of th··
people all of the time, and all of the peoplt' ,.:
one time or another."
I. F. Stone was born Isidor Feinstein in Phib·
delphia, Pennsylvania on December 24, !9!l7 t ·
Bernard and Katherine (Novack) Feinstein. ll··
grew up in Haddonfield, New Jersey, where 11b'
Russian-Jewish immigrant parents owned <I
goods store. A voracious reader even as a chtk.
S_tone read as many as three or four books in ~
smgle afternoon while in grade schooL As a ht~··
school student he was inspired by Walt Whitma:·.
and he first encountered political radicalism wl1<'':
he discovered Jack London's Martin Eden 3 ~··:
Prince Peter Kropotkin's anarchist treatise Tt:<
Conquest of Bread.
1
Stone began his journalistic career as a fo: :·
teen-year-old high school sophomore in 10~~:
when he and a classmate published their 0 " ··
r;
newspaper, a five-cent
l'ttlflf•essive that carried
attacking .
supporting Gandhi,
::League of Nations. Stone
:'!'cin his bicycle to its 500
f'ended after three
:fearing that he was
·'•>made him discontinue
·school, Stone began to work as
Haddonfield Press, and he also
bJs home town's cm:-re!ipond•entl
(New Jersey) Courier-Post,
J. Davi Stem, had been
teen-ager's short-lived pu.uu~wt.t
An indifferent scholar,
·In a class of fifty-two when
high school in 1924. Unable
Harvard, he enrolled in the
sylvania as a philosophy
worked ten hours a day,
as a copy editor and
delphia Inquirer. In 1927,
Junior year, Stone ended his
"There were one or two good
an excellent library-and who
he recalled in an interview
Newsday (January 20, 1968)
time of teaching philosophy,
newspaper shop was more
sterish atlnosphere of a
: After leaving the "";.. ~.~.;~
·again for the Camden
and editor, and over the next
virtually every aspect of
. trade. Meanwhile, his interest
him to join the Socialist party,
old enough to vote he was
Jersey state committee. As a
1928 Presidential catmp•at~~
for Norman Thomas.
abandoned partisan politics
Pru:tY affiliation might inhibit
}o become a crusading
· ln 1933, after J. David
York Post, Stone moved to
its staff as an editorial writer
also worked as a reporter and
Stem's Philadelphia Record.
Court Disposes, about the
Court, was published by
1937. In 1938, while still
became associate editor of
Nation.
Because of differences of
who, he maintained, had
Stone left the New York
year he moved to
the Nation's Washington
in that post until 1946. In
a reporter and columnist for 1
~ liberal daily published in I'
T'ers~ll. Stone's second book,
incl F_trst Year of Defense ( 1
N ~din~ some of his Washin;
ation, IS an indictment of w;
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AROL LEE SANCHEZ
SUSAN BROWNMILLER
left to the best-irained practitioners of
exes who have chosen it as a vocation.
than to harried and all too frequently
y persons with little time or taste for the
of educating minds however young or
d . . . . The family. as that term is presnderstood, must go.
Sexual Politics
1969
s nothing is so depressing an index of the
anity <Jf the male supremacist mentality
fact that the more genial human traits are
d to the underclass: affection. response
pathy. kindness. cheerfulness.
Ibid.
see the function of true Erotica (writing
is pro-. not antisexual) as one not only
sible but worthy of encouragement and
approval. as its laudable and legitimate
n is to increase sexual appetite just as
prose encourages other appetites.
Ibid.
women prudes if they don't and prostithey do?
Speech. Women's Writer's
Conference. Los Angeles
22 March 1975
s arc the political prisoners of the feminist
cnt.
. They are considered criminals
other reason than the fact that they are
men aren't jailed for solicita.. Women are jailed. And they're jailed
e they have cunts.
Quoted in Radical Lifestyles
by Claudia Dreifus *
1971
r agony of that severance fresh as a dis!red limb.
Sita
1976
~me
wants or one does not want. And the
!he sorrow of life is that one cannot make
! ·cc or persuade the wanting. cannot com: it. cannot request it by mail order or
it through bureaucratic channels. Ibid.
!
4 God knows (she knows) that women try.
"Sisterhood," The First Ms. Reader,
Francine Klagsbrun, ed.
1972
3 yo soy india
5 I have met brave women who are exploring the
pero no soy
yo soy anglo
pero no soy
yo soy arabe
pero no soy
yo soy chicana
pero no soy
outer edge of human possibility, with no history
to guide them, and with a courage to make
themselves vulnerable that I find moving beyond
words.
Ibid.
6 The definition of woman's work is shitwork.
"Tribal Chant," St. 5.
That's What She Said, Rayna
Green,* ed.
1984
*See 2284.
4 how come you kees me by
the reever, & on the strit
jou don told me hallo?
"The Way I Was. . . . , " St. 2, op. cit.
ftv
wars. children in this country have
to kill Indians mentally. s.ubcon)y through the visual media. until it is an
atic reflex. That shocks you~ Then I have
6y point .. the cheap western is still
· out of Hollywood. the old shoot- 'em-up
ns playing on afternoon kid shows, late
T.V. Would you allow your children to
·azis and Jews? Blacks and KKKs'l
"Sex. Class and Race Intersections
Visions of Women of Color,"
A Gathering of Spirit, Beth Brant,*
ed.
1984
Quoted in "Freelancer with No Time
to Write" by John Brady, Writer's
Digest
momentary what-nots scattered through the
years
from dresser drawer
to china closet
and way up high on the linen
closet shelf.
Untitled, St. 2, op. cit.
April 1974
Erotica is about sexuality, but pornography is
about power and sex-as-weapon-in the same
way we have come to understand that rape is
about violence, and not really about sex at
all.
"Erotica and Pornography, A
Clear and Present Difference,"
Ms.
2163. Patricia Simon ( 1934An old French farm built on levels up and down
a hillside near Grasse-overlooking. in the middle
distance, the quiet cluster of the town and. in
the further distance, hills. and beyond them
other hills, and other hills, in a gentle, fertile.
dreamlike landscape that continued forever-the
Alpes-Maritimes.
"The Making of a Masterpiece."
October IY70
2 Flowers and sunlight, air and silence-"lu.rt·.
calme et I'Oiupte."
I bill.
pis~J
2164. Gloria Steinem (1934-
Q
he first problem for all of us, men and women.
s not to learn, but to unlearn.
"A New Egalitarian Life Style,"
The New York Timt'.l"
26 August IY71
2 It's clear that most American children suffer too
much mother and too little father.
Ibid.
3 . . . no man can call himself liberal, or radical.
or even a conservative advocate of fair play, if
February 1974
A government's responsibility to its young citizens does not magically begin at the age of six.
It makes more sense to extend the free universal
school system downward-with the necessary
reforms and community control that child care
should have from the start.
·
"Victory with Honor," Ms.
5 love longs to touch the ordinary places-
McCall's
Carol Lee Sanchez ( 1934-
his work depends in any way on the unpaid or
underpaid labor of women at home. or in the
office.
Ibid.
2 We have been displaced, relocated, removed.
terminated, educated, acculturated and in our
hearts and minds we will always "go back to
the blanket" as long as we are still connected
to our families, our Tribes and our land.
Ibid.
November 1978
9 We must understand the difference between what
we mean by family and what the Right Wing
means by family.
. . Women are the means
of production, owned by the husband. Children
are the labor. owned by the husband. And that's
what they mean by family. Consequently, they
oppose any direct guarantee of right between
wife and the law· or children and the law, because that is antithetical to their definition of the
family.
Speech, National Women's
Political Caucus Conference,
Albuquerque. New Mexico
July 1981
10 .
. the family is the basic cell of government:
it is where we are trained to believe that we are
human beings or that we are chattel, it is where
we are trained to see the sex and race divisions
and become callous to injustice even if it is done
to ourselves, to accept as biological a full system
of authoritarian government.
Ibid.
I I Some of us are becoming the men we wanted
to marry.
Speech, Yale University
23 September 1981
I2 If the men in the room would only think how
they would feel graduating with a "spinster of
arts" degree they would see how important this
Ibid.
(language refonn] is.
I3
2166
. the authority of any governing institution
must stop at its citizen's skin.
"Night Thoughts of a
Media-Watcher," Ms.
N01•ember 1981
14 Finding language that will allow people to act
together while cherishing each other's individuality is probably the most feminist and therefore truly revolutionary function of writers.
Introduction, Outrageous
Acts and Every Day Rebellions
1983
I 5 Living in India made me understand that a white
minority of the world has spent centuries conning us into thinking a white skin makes people
superior, even though the only thing it really
does is make them more subject to ultraviolet
ravs and wrinkles.
•.. If Men Could Menstruate" (I 978). op. cit.
Logic has nothing to do with oppression.
Ibid.
If men start taking care of children, the job will
become more valuable.
Quoted in "Onward. Women'" bv Claudia
Wallis, Time
4 Deceniber 1989
18 A woman without a man is like a fish without
a bicycle.
Attr.
11.d.
2165. Shirley Hill Witt ( 19341 want to weep for La Vieja
Two booths away,
But I can't: she is me.
"Punto Final," St. 6, That's
What She Said, Rayna Green, ed.
1984
2 The campesinos tend to smooth out the wrinkled
places of legend for the better telling and also
for their own better understanding. In this way.
they discharge those questions left unanswered
in their time as so much uselessness: the tale
weaves
better the
more simply
told.
anyway.
"La Mujer de Valor,"
op. cit.
2166. Susan Brownmiller ( 1935Man's discovery that his genitalia could serve
as a weapon to generate fear must rank as one
of the most important discoveries of prehistoric
times, along with the .use of fire and the first
crude stone axe. From prehistoric times to the
present. I believe. rape has played a critical
function. It is nothing more or Jess than a conscious proce·ss of intimidation by which all men
keep all women in a state of fear.
Agai11st Our Will: Me11, Women,
a11d Rape
1975
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8
AGE
Let me advise thee not to talk of thyself as being
old. There is something in Mind Cure, after all,
and, if thee continually talks of thyself as being
old, thee may perhaps bring on some of the
infirmities of age. At least I would not risk it if I
were thee.
HANNAH WHITALL SMITH {1907), in Logan Pearsall
Smith, Philadelphia Quaker {1950)
AGE
think about, study, or read about .... It is as if
a fresh sap of ideas and thoughts was rising in
you.
AGATHA CHRISTIE,
Wisdom doesn't automatically come with old
age. Nothing does-except wrinkles. It's true,
some wines improve with age. But only if the
grapes were good in the first place.
There are no old people nowadays; they are either "wonderful for their age" or dead.
MARY PETTIBONE PoOLE,
( 193 8)
A Glass Eye at a Keyhole
It is not mere chance that makes families speak
of a child who is "extraordinary for his age" and
also of an old man who is "extraordinary for his
age"; the extraordinariness lies in their behaving
like human beings when they are either not yet
or no longer men.
SIMONE DE BEAUVOIR,
The \Voman \Vithin {1954)
I have a problem about being nearly sixty: I keep
waking up in the morning and thinking I'm
thirty-one.
ELIZABETH jANEWAY,
{1974)
ABIGAIL VAN BUREN, syndicated column {1978)
The Coming of Age {1970)
Between Myth and Morning
Being over seventy is like being engaged in a war.
All our friends are going or gone and we survive
amongst the dead and the dying as on a
battlefield.
MuRIEL SPARK,
You sta
new ha
MIRIAM REIBOLD, news item {1991)
MARIE V·
An Autobiography {1977)
Though it sounds absurd, it is true to say I felt
younger at sixty than I had felt at twenty.
ELLEN GLASGOW,
experience to offer, judgment, wisdom, balance
and charm.
Memento Mori {1959)
In a dream you are never eighty.
ANNE SEXTON, "Old,"
All My Pretty Ones {1962)
It is so comic to hear one's self called old; even
at ninety, I suppose!
Women may be the one group that grows more
radical with age.
GLORIA STEINEM,
Rebellions {1983)
Outrageous Acts and Everyday
So n;uch has been said and sung of beautiful
young girls, why doesn't somebody wake up to
the beauty of old wom~n?
HARRIET BEECHER STOWE,
Uncle Tom's Cabin {1 8 52)
'Tis am
can: the
able ign
those sa
vanity, ·
my ext
day.
LADY M;
Hal shant
Time and trouble will tame an advanced young
woman, but an advanced old woman is uncontrollable by any earthly force.
DoROTHY L. SAYERS,
Clouds of \Vitness {1955)
\Vortley '
I never
you dor
LOUISE i'
The trouble was, she could not see the justice of
her state. She was not old: she was a girl hidden
behind a mask. Now that she had realized she
was no longer young, she did not know how she
should behave. She had become a stranger in her
own life.
OLIVIA MANNING,
The Doves of Venus {1955)
Aging: A
It was I
should ,
that N,;
state.
LADY M,,
T'
\Vortley f
Octave
She had finally reached the age where she was
more afraid of getting old than dying.
jULIA PHILLIPS,
Again (1991)
You'll Never Eat Lunch in This Town
And indeed, it is old age, rather than death, that
is to be contrasted with life. Old age is life's
parody, whereas death transforms life into a destiny.
SIMONE DE BEAUVOIR,
ALICE jAMES,
journal {1889)
I have always felt that a woman has the right to
treat the subject of her age with ambiguity until,
perhaps, she passes into the realm of over ninety.
Then it is better she be candid with herself and
with the world.
HELENA RuBINSTEIN,
i
II
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li
!"
I'
BETTE MIDLER, in
Reader's Digest {1982)
Being young is beautiful, but being old is comfortable.
MARIE VON EBNER-ESCHENBACH,
Aphorisms (1905)
MARIE VON EBNER-ESCHENBACH,
Aphorisms {1905)
Southern Discomfort {r982)
SIX
The great thing about getting older is that you
don't lose all the other ages you've been.
MADELEINE L'ENGLE, in
New York Times {1985)
i
After thirty, a body has a mind of its own.
Storyteller {1981)
I used t<
would n
to do, b·
want to
NANCY;\'
Ann O'C•
In youth we learn; in age we understand.
RITA MAE BROWN,
GYPSY ROSE LEE, in Barbara McDowell and Hana
Umlauf, \Voman's Almanac {1977)
LESLIE MARMON SILKO, "Lullaby,"
My Life for Beauty {1966)
A woman who will tell her age will tell anything.
The Coming of Age {1970)
I've got everything I always had. Only it's
inches lower.
She was an old woman now, and her life had
become memories.
When I am an old woman I shall wear purple.
jENNY jOSEPH, "Warning," in Sandra Martz, ed.,
l Am an Old WIoman I Shall WIear Purple {1 9 87)
\Vhen
The old creep out at the churchyard gate, while
the young bound in at the front door.
ELIZABETH RUNDLE CHARLES, Chronicles
Schonberg- Cotta Family.{ r 86 3)
of the
Paradoxical as it may seem, to believe in youth
is to look backward; to look forward we must
believe in age.
f)(lPrlTI••·f
c,,.,.,r
(",,._,,, , . , . , ! , " . , \
It is am
toward
grows o·
GEORGE~
Intimate./
Old age
As powc
MAY SARI
Toward rl·
�Shoes(r986)
AFTERLIFE
Africa is mystic; it is wild; it is a sweltering inferno; it is a photographer's paradise, a hunter's
Valhalla, an escapist's Utopia. It is what you
will, and it withstands all interpretations. It is
the last vestige of a dead world or the cradle of
a shiny new one. To a lot of people, as to myself,
it is just "home." It is all these things but one
thing-it is never dull.
This World is not Conclusion. I A Sequel stands
beyond- I Invisible, as Music- I But positive,
as Sound.
BERYL MARKHAM,
West with the Night (1942)·
It is a cruel country; it takes your heart and
grinds it into powdered stone-and no one
minds.
ELSPETH HuxLEY,
If there is whistling in the great beyond, I'll kill
EMILY DICKINSON (1862),
In health, in the bustle of living, it was easy to
believe in heaven and a life to come. But when
the blow fell, and those you loved passed into
the great Silence, where you could not get at
them, or they at you, then doubts, aching doubts
took possession of one.
HENRY HANDEL RICHARDSON, The
Mahoney: Ultima Thule (1929)
Fortunes of Richard
Heaven is neither a place nor a time.
BERYL MARKHAM,
West with the Night (1942)
Writers brought up in Africa have many advantages-being at the center of a modern
battlefield; part of a society in rapid, dramatic
change. But in the long run it can also be a
handicap: to wake up every morning with one's
eyes on a fresh evidence of inhumanity; to be
reminded twenty times a day of injustice, and
always the same brand of it, can be limiting.
DoRIS LESSING,
African Stories (1965)
But the soul of Africa, its integrity, the slow inexorable pulse of its life, is its own and of such
singular rhythm that no outsider, unless steeped
from childhood in its endless, even beat, can ever
hope to experience it, except only as a bystander
might experience a Masai war dance knowing
nothing of its music nor the meaning of its steps.
BERYL MARKHAM,
West with the Night (1942)
fLORENCE NIGHTINGALE,
Mysticism (1873)
He [Christ] even restored the severed ear of the
soldier who came to arrest Him-a fact that allows us to hope the resurrection will reflect a
considerable attention to detail.
MARILYNNE ROBINSON,
jEAN STAFFORD,
Housekeeping (1980) ·
See also Eternity, Immortality.
AGE
For years I wanted to be older, and now I am.
MARGARET ATWOOD,
The Letters of Evelyn Underhill
( 1943)
What's so good about a heaven where, one of
these days, you're going to get your embarrassing old body back?
.
MARSHA NoRMAN,
The Fortune Teller (r987)
I live now on borrowed time, waiting in the anteroom for the summons that will inevitably
Cat"s Eye (1988)
Age seldom arrives smoothly or quickly. It's
more often a succession of jerks.
jEAN RHYS, in
Observer (1975)
About the only thing that comes to us without
effort is old age.
GLORIA PITZER, in
Reader's Digest (1979)
The aging aren't only the old; the aging are all of
us.
ALEXANDRA RoBBIN,
Aging: A New Look ( 1982)
Do not deprive me of my age. I have earned it.
MAY SARTON,
I think the resurrection of the body, unless much
improved in construction, a mistake.
EvELYN UNDERHILL,
The Catherine Wheel (1951)
Poems, Third Series (1896)
The Flame Trees ofThika (1959)
Africa is never the same to anyone who leaves it
and returns again. It is not a land of change, but
it is a land of moods and its moods are numberless. It is not fickle, but because it has mothered
not only men, but races, and cradles not only
cities, but civilizations-and seen them die, and
seen new ones born again-Africa can be dispassionate, indifferent, warm, or cynical, replete
with the weariness of too much wisdom.
myself.
The Poet and the Donkey (1969)
I am luminous with age.
MERIDEL LE SUEUR, title poem,
Ripening (1975)
Rites of Ancient
Old age transfigures or fossilizes.
MARIE VON EBNER-ESCHEN BACH,
Aphorisms ( 190 5)
Growing old is partly an inescapable process of
accommodation and adjustment.
KATHE KOLLWITZ (1910), in Hans Kollwitz, ed.,
come. And then-1 go on to the next thing, -~d nO< ch•ng' " w' gcew old''"
whatever it is. One doesn't luckily have tj}b
e more clearly ourselves.
'
71'
~
bother about that.
AGATHA CHRISTIE,
An Autobiography ( 1 977)
It's the possibility that when you're dead you
might still go on hurting that bothers me.
KERI HuLME,
The Bone People (1983)
The
Diaries and Letters of Kiithe Kollwitz (I 9 55)
LYNN HALL,
w'
jc<t
Where Have All the Tigers Gune? ( 1989)
Her grandmother, as she gets older, is not fading
but rather becoming more concentrated.
PAULETTE BATES ALDEN, "Legacies,"
(1988)
Feeding the Eagles
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POWER
254
I don't believe that it's true that the poor will
always be with us. I think that kind of pious
fatalism is just an excuse for keeping things the
way they are.
1'vlARGARET CuLKIN BANNING,
The Quality of Mercy
I am more and more convinced that man is a
dangerous creature; and that power, whether
vested in many or a few, is ever grasping, and,
like the grave, cries "Give, give."
Power ... is not an end in itself, but is an instr
ment that must be used toward an end.
JEANE
j.
KIRKPATRICK, speech
SIMONE WEIL,
We always come back to the same vicious circle-an extreme degree of material or intellectual poverty does away with the means of alleviating it.
SIMONE DE BEAUVOIR,
The Coming of Age (1970)
Poor people who had escaped from poverty as I
had, feared it, hated it and fled from it all their
lives. Those born rich could afford to be touched
by it.
ANZIA YEZIERSKA,
Red Ribbon on a White Horse
( 1950)
For those who have lived on the edge of poverty
all their lives, the semblance of poverty affected
by the affluent is both incomprehensible and insulting.
LILLIAN BRESLOW RUBIN,
Worlds of Pain (1976)
Power should. not be concentrated in the hands
of so few, and powerlessness in the hands of so
many.
A Favorite of the Gods (1963)
Bodies in power tend to stay in power, unless
external forces disturb them.
CATHARINE STIMPSON, "The Power to Name," in E.
Sherman and E. Beck,eds.,
J.
Outrageous Acts and Everyday
But even if there were no Communists, the 1.--R_e_b_ellions (r983)
wealthy white western minority of the world
Power, however it has evolved, whatever its oricould not hope to prosper if most of the rest of
gins, will not be given up without a struggle.
mankind were foundering in hopeless poverty.
SHULAMITH FIRESTONE, The Dialectic of Sex ( 1970)
Islands of plenty in a vast ocean of misery have
never been a good recipe for commercial success.
But I have noticed this about ambitious men, or
BARBARA WARD, in Richard Thruelsen and John Kobler,
men in power-they fear even the slightest and
Adventures of the Mind (1959)
least likely threat to it.
The Crystal Cave (1970)
See also Ghetto, Homelessness, Hunger.
MARY STEWART,
POWER
Providence is always on the side of the big battalions.
You see what power is-holding someone else's
fear in your hand and showing it to them!
AMY TAN,
The Kitchen God's Wife (1991)
Power in the hands of particular groups and
classes serves like a prism to refract reality
through their own perspective.
A Vindication of the Rights
·
The less powerful group usually knows the PO\
erful one much better than vice versa-blacl
have had to understand whites in order to su
vive, women have had to know men-yet tl
powerful group can afford to regard the le
powerful one as a mystery.
GLORIA STEINEM,
Outrageous Acts and Everyday
Rebellions (1983)
The Prism of Sex (1979)
Power can be taken, but not given. The process
of the taking is empowerment in itself.
GLORIA STEIN EM,
I do not wish them [women] to have power ov '
men; but over themselves.
of Women (1792)
"Must power always be for destruction?" said
Anna. "That has so far been largely the experience."
SYBILLE BEDFORD,
(198 I)
First and Last Notebooks ( 1970 )
MARY WOLLSTONECRAFT,
Ms. (1975)
MAGGIE KuHN, in
I
To get power over is to defile. To possess is
defile.
ABIGAIL ADAMS, letter to her husband, John Adams
(rnsl
(1963)
I
MARIE DE RABUTIN-CHANTAL, MARQUISE DE SEVIGNE,
Ironically, women who acquire power are mo;
likely to be criticized for it than are the men wh
have always had it.
CAROLYN HEILBRUN,
Writing a Woman's Life ( 1 988)
Power travels in the bloodlines handed out b.
fore birth.
'
'
LOUISE ERDRICH,
Tracks (1988)
Power is the test. Some, once they have it, a1
content to buy the show of liking, and punis
those who withhold it; then you have a despo
But some keep a true eye for how they seem t
others, and care about it, which holds them bac
from much mischief.
MARY RENAULT,
The Praise Singer (1978)
Surely a king who loves pleasure is less dange1
ous than one who loves glory.
167 5 ), Letters. of Madame de
Sevigmi to Her Daughter and Her Friends.(r8II)
NANCY MITFORD,
In this world, all power rests upon force.
Being physically close to extreme power caus(
one to experience a giddiness, an intoxication.
letter to her daughter (c.
MARIE VON EBNER-ESCHENBACH,
Aphorisms (1905)
MAYA ANGELOU,
Shoes (1986)
The Water Beetle (1962)
All God's Children Need Traveling
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William J. Clinton Presidential Library & Museum
Extent
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150 folders in 10 boxes
Text
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Paper
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Title
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HRC [Hillary Rodham Clinton]/Gloria Steinem 5/94 [5/9/94]
Creator
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First Lady’s Office
Speechwriting
Identifier
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2012-1004-S
Is Part Of
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Box 1
<a href="http://www.clintonlibrary.gov/assets/Documents/Finding-Aids/Systematic/2012-1004-S-Speechwriting.pdf">Collection Finding Aid</a>
<a href="https://catalog.archives.gov/id/1766805" target="_blank">National Archives Catalog Description</a>
Provenance
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Clinton Presidential Records: White House Staff and Office Files
Publisher
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William J. Clinton Presidential Library & Museum
Format
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Adobe Acrobat Document
Medium
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Reproduction-Reference
Date Created
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11/13/2014
Source
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42-t-7763272-20121004s-001-006
1766805