Today, as Gloria Steinem, herself, turns 90, I will not flatter her with compliments about how she still doesn’t look her age, or how considerate, clever and courageous she remains. What I’d like to do, instead, is celebrate her and the feminist movement she continues to devote her long life to, enabling me, and countless others of my generation to, as she once put it, “Live out the unlived lives of our mothers, because they were not able to become the unique people they were born to be.”
Author: Lori Sokol
Lori Sokol, PhD, is the executive director and editor-in-chief of Women’s eNews and an award-winning journalist and author who is currently writing her memoir.
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