“A warmly companionable look back at nearly five decades as itinerant feminist organizer and standard-bearer. They are a beacon of hope for the future.” - USA Today The lessons imparted in Life on the Road offer more than a reminiscence. Part of the appeal of My Life is how Steinem, with evocative, melodic prose, conveys the air of discovery and wonder she felt during so many of her journeys. “A lyrical meditation on restlessness and the quest for equity.
It is also filled with a sense of the momentous while offering deeply personal insights into what shaped her.” - O: The Oprah Magazine “Like Steinem herself, is thoughtful and astonishingly humble. “This legendary feminist makes a compelling case for traveling as listening: a way of letting strangers’ stories flow, as she puts it, ‘out of our heads and into our hearts.’” - People In prose that is revealing and rich, Gloria reminds us that living in an open, observant, and “on the road” state of mind can make a difference in how we learn, what we do, and how we understand each other. magazine from the historic 1977 National Women’s Conference to her travels through Indian Country-a lifetime spent on the road allowed Gloria to listen and connect deeply with people, to understand that context is everything, and to become part of a movement that would change the world.
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. ONE OF O: THE OPRAH MAGAZINE’S TEN FAVORITE BOOKS OF THE YEAR | NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY Harper’s Bazaar
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