From her first experience of social activism among women in India to her work as a journalist in the 1960s from the whirlwind of political campaigns to the founding of Ms. My Life on the Road is the moving, funny, and profound story of Gloria’s growth and also the growth of a revolutionary movement for equality-and the story of how surprising encounters on the road shaped both. And so began a lifetime of travel, of activism and leadership, of listening to people whose voices and ideas would inspire change and revolution. The seeds were planted: Gloria realized that growing up didn’t have to mean settling down. When she was a young girl, her father would pack the family in the car every fall and drive across country searching for adventure and trying to make a living. Gloria Steinem had an itinerant childhood. It leads us out of denial and into reality, out of theory and into practice, out of caution and into action, out of statistics and into stories-in short, out of our heads and into our hearts. The road is messy in the way that real life is messy. Taking to the road-by which I mean letting the road take you-changed who I thought I was. When people ask me why I still have hope and energy after all these years, I always say: Because I travel.

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Gloria Steinem-writer, activist, organizer, and inspiring leader-tells a story she has never told before, a candid account of her life as a traveler, a listener, and a catalyst for change.

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