Feminist icon Gloria Steinem: ‘I was too worried about approval’
Feminist icon, campaign and journalist Gloria Steinem would not be so meek “or worried about approval” if she had her life again.
Feminist icon, campaign and journalist Gloria Steinem would not be so meek “or worried about approval” if she had her life again.
I had to smile when I saw the joyful brouhaha made in the press over the marriage of 75-year-old lawyer King Rodrigo to 69-year-old actress Boots Anson-Roa. Similar goodwill and cheer met the press announcement of the engagement of actress Zsa Zsa Padilla and architect Conrad Onglao, both in their 50s. There was also much joy in the States last week when, after 15 years of widowhood, 57-year-old much-admired TV journalist Katie Couric married 51-year-old financier John Molner.
Having just turned 80, Gloria Steinem, the name and face of women’s liberation and feminism from the ’60s, is asked if she had any regrets. “Well,” she replies, “actually, it’s not so much what I would have done differently; it’s that I would have done it much faster.”
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