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...founder of Ms. magazine Gloria Steinem spoke on the liberalism of older women before a crowd of 250 at the George Washington Ballroom at the Sheraton Commander Hotel yesterday...
...noteworthy that a mere generation after someone got the notion it isn't right to persecute people for their sexual orientation -- a thing no more easily changed, it turns out, than Martin Luther King's skin or Gloria Steinem's gender -- there is quiet recognition among a large segment of the country, and even the conservative business world, that, hey, most people are straight, some people are gay, and it's really not that big a deal. Sometimes it's even pretty funny...
...herself, above all. Steinem's lengthy quest for self-validation has loosened her personal reticence somewhat, but she still chafes at being viewed through that prism. Yes, she has finally furnished her Upper East Side brownstone with more than boxes, saved money for the first time in her life, taken up an exercise regimen, untangled her relationship with multimillionaire Mortimer Zuckerman, and learned to relax, but why should anyone care? Unless, of course, she decides it matters in the broader scheme of promoting self- actualization. More than a tinge of naivete colors this side of Steinem, whose struggle to balance...
...with ordinary readers, Steinem's message has broken through. They don't ask her about the personal much. They want to know about the self and how to gain and trust their own. It is a fine triumph for this woman, who has shaped so many lives by tacking her beliefs and efforts to the events of her time, to succeed in holding the feminist course while expanding its horizons to include everyone. "When one member of a group changes," Steinem writes, "the balance shifts for everyone, and when one group changes, it shifts the balance of society...
...interview with Faludi and Steinem...