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Death, Sex & Money

Ellen Burstyn & Gloria Steinem

Death, Sex & Money

Slate Audio

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

4.6 • 7.7K 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.  Support Death, Sex & Money by becoming a monthly sustaining member. Sign up now. Follow the show on Twitter @deathsexmoney and Facebook at facebook.com/deathsexmoney. Sign up for the Death, Sex & Money newsletter at deathsexmoney.org/newsletter. Email us at deathsexmoney@wnyc.org. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

So Gloria, I loved your book.

0:02.4

Oh, I just loved it.

0:04.4

You're such a good writer.

0:05.8

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

0:10.1

Now I'm your slave for life. This is death, sex, and money.

0:18.0

Don't look at me like that. I'll get a job.

0:20.0

The show from WNY

0:22.0

about the things we think about a lot.

0:25.0

Will we vote for any politician who opposes reproductive freedom?

0:29.0

And need to talk about more.

0:31.0

But my God, I loved her.

0:33.0

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

0:37.0

I'm going to put my hearing aids up.

0:41.0

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

0:44.4

For many of us, Gloria Steinam represents the women's movement.

0:51.8

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

0:57.1

magazine for I think it's 1975 when I'm on the cover and has spent decades

1:04.4

crisscrossing the country and the world

1:07.2

to make women's voices and lives heard.

1:10.5

Well, you're living alone now. We're in our 80s. I live alone. You live alone. How is that for you?

1:18.0

Well, it's not very alone actually because I want my own space.

1:25.2

I never ever, you know, whether I was living with a man or married,

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