Gloria Marie Steinem, 1934-

Ms. Steinem is a writer and journalist but she most recognized as a feminist and leader of the women’s liberation movement of the sixties and seventies.  She is the author of  Outrageous Acts and Everyday Rebellions, a book of her essays named, The Book of Self Esteem-Revolution from Within, and Doing Sixty & Seventy.

 Quote from: http://koti.mbnet.fi/pasenka/quotes/q-writ.htm#Writing%20is%20heaven
Illustration from a 1880 Advertisement: “Laundry starch” – Gilbert S. Graves, manufacturer, Buffalo, N.Y. (found on Wikimedia commons)
Image of Steinem from Wikimedia.

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