Personal Reflections and Life Decisions

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This chapter delves into personal reflections on discovering similarities with the speaker's mother, discussing how grief over the mother's unfulfilled life influenced their involvement in the women's movement. It also explores the speaker's early life experiences, including their high school days in Toledo, college rejections, academic pursuits at Smith College, and a significant decision to break off an engagement in 1956 in pursuit of personal growth and independence.

For over sixty years, Gloria Steinem has been at the center of American culture and political life, where she has been instrumental in shaping our ideas about feminism, humanity, and equal rights for all people. She joins to talk about her legendary career as an award-winning journalist, New York Times best-selling author, co-founder of one of the most significant magazines of the 21st century, and an activist whose work has impacted the place women and girls now have in the world.