A book I am devouring as we speak, is Gloria Steinem's book of self esteem, 'Revolution from within'.Written in 1992 it is as relevant today as when she first penned it.
What inspired me to buy it, was a recent interview with the author on Oprah. My eyes were out on sticks when Oprah announced that Gloria Steinhem was in her seventies! She looks as her photo below reveals, at least twenty years younger.
Having reached the 50's myself recently, which I like to describe as the youth of old age, I am of that generation who still know who Gloria Steinem is, and was reminded by her presence on Oprah, that here is a woman, who has something to teach those of us behind her about lifelong growing. I vowed there and then to research more into what makes this remarkable feminist tick, and googled her.
Hence the arrival of the afore-mentioned book to my home a few days later. (God I love the internet) and thus far it is proving to be as thought provoking as its title suggests. Its also one of those books that you can dip into out of sequence, an approach to reading, that mirrors a re-assuring quote from the preface ; 'Nature doesn't move in a straight line, and as part of nature, neither do we.'
What inspired me to buy it, was a recent interview with the author on Oprah. My eyes were out on sticks when Oprah announced that Gloria Steinhem was in her seventies! She looks as her photo below reveals, at least twenty years younger.
Having reached the 50's myself recently, which I like to describe as the youth of old age, I am of that generation who still know who Gloria Steinem is, and was reminded by her presence on Oprah, that here is a woman, who has something to teach those of us behind her about lifelong growing. I vowed there and then to research more into what makes this remarkable feminist tick, and googled her.
Hence the arrival of the afore-mentioned book to my home a few days later. (God I love the internet) and thus far it is proving to be as thought provoking as its title suggests. Its also one of those books that you can dip into out of sequence, an approach to reading, that mirrors a re-assuring quote from the preface ; 'Nature doesn't move in a straight line, and as part of nature, neither do we.'
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