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Death, Sex & Money

Death, Sex & Money - Ellen Burstyn & Gloria Steinem

Death, Sex & Money

Slate Audio

Careers, Sexuality, Business, Health & Fitness, Relationships, Society & Culture

4.67.7K Ratings

🗓️ 5 October 2016

⏱️ 36 minutes

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Summary

The journalist and feminist icon sits down with guest host Ellen Burstyn to talk about having the chutzpah to strike out on her own as a young woman, and her love of life at 82. 

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0:00.0

So, Gloria, I loved your book.

0:02.6

Oh.

0:03.3

I just loved it.

0:04.5

It was such a good writer.

0:06.7

You know, no writer wants to hear anything but that.

0:10.2

Now I'm your slave for life.

0:15.4

This is death, sex, and money.

0:18.3

Don't look at me like that.

0:19.5

I'll get a job.

0:20.6

The show from WNYC about the things we think about a lot.

0:24.9

Will we vote for any politician who opposes reproductive freedom?

0:29.3

And need to talk about more.

0:31.6

My God, I loved her.

0:33.6

I'm actress Ellen Burstyn, in for Anna's sale.

0:37.5

I'm going to put my hearing aids up.

0:40.8

And today, I'm talking to one of my heroes, Gloria Steinem.

0:44.3

I do for special people like you.

0:47.4

For many of us, Gloria Steinem represents the woman's movement.

0:51.6

She was a founding editor of Ms. Magazine in 1972. I brought the Ms.

0:57.2

magazine for, I think it's 1975 when I'm on the cover. And has spent decades criss-crossing

1:05.2

the country and the world to make women's voices and lives heard. Well, you're living alone now.

1:12.7

We're in our 80s.

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