When I went to work at Ms. in 1972, I wore a matching pink skirt and blouse—and a girdle. I had just gotten married and was, therefore, not able to get a bank loan without my husband’s approval. And I had had an illegal abortion.
Author: Suzanne Braun Levine
Suzanne Braun Levine is a writer, editor and nationally recognized authority on women, families and media. She was the first editor of Ms. magazine (1972-1988), and the first woman editor of the prestigious Columbia Journalism Review. She reports on the ongoing changes in women's lives in her books, on her web site SuzanneBraunLevine.com, on television, radio, as a frequent guest blogger and lecturer. Her new book How We Love Now: Sex and the New Intimacy in Second Adulthood (Viking/January 2, 2012) is the "third chapter" in her ongoing conversation with women in second adulthood, the stage she celebrated in two popular books: 50 Is the New Fifty: 10 Life Lessons for Women in Second Adulthood, and Inventing the Rest of Our Lives: Women in Second Adulthood.