Reflections on women's aging from the New York Timesbestselling author who inspired the film The Glorias.One day I woke up and there was a seventy-year-old woman in my bed... Gloria Steinem has been an eloquent and outspoken voice for women's rights and equality for more than four decades. In Doing Sixty & Seventy she addresses an essential concern of people everywhereand especially of women: the issue of aging. Whereas turning fifty, in her experience, is ';leaving a much-loved and familiar country,' turning sixty means ';arriving at the border of a new one.' With insight, intelligence, wit, and heartfelt honesty, she explores the landscapes of this new country and celebrates what she has called ';the greatest adventure of our lives.' While appreciating everybody's experiences as different, Steinem sees these years as charged with possibilities. Dealing with stereotypes and the ';invisibility' that often accompany a woman's senior years can be as liberating as it is frustrating. It frees women as well as men to embrace that ';full, glorious, alive-in-the-moment, don't-give-a-damn yet caring-for-everything sense of the right now.' This ebook features an illustrated biography of Gloria Steinem including rare images and never-before-seen documents from the author's personal collection.
