Episode 158 - Gloria Steinem

Talk Easy with Sam Fragoso

Lemonada Media

Society & Culture, Film Interviews, Tv & Film

4.8 • 1.2K Ratings

🗓️ 16 December 2019

⏱️ 67 minutes

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Summary

The trajectory of Gloria Steinem’s life and work is unparalleled. Her cultural and political impact, incalculable. With the release of “The Truth Will Set You Free, But First It Will Piss You Off”, the beloved author and activist reflects on a life-altering procedure she had completed at age 22, why she helped create the women's liberation movement alongside Dorothy Pitman Hughes and Flo Kennedy, and how she learned to become angry—on her own behalf—about race and gender bias throughout America. We also discuss much more because, well, this is Gloria Steinem after all. For more about our show visit www.talkeasypod.com

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0:00.0	Pushkin. In that period of time and especially in places where there was not access to
0:24.0	information about what the women's movement was, for me in Flo Kennedy or me and Dorothy Pittman used to go out on the
0:28.0	hustings and talk.
0:29.0	Something happens when you're in a room physically with other people that can't happen on the
0:34.9	printed page and I don't think I ever would have learned that if it hadn't been
0:39.2	before the movement and being forced out to speak.
0:46.0	That was Gloria Steinem. I'm Sam Fregoso and this is Talk Easy.
0:50.0	Welcome to the show. Hey everyone. We started this podcast in April of 2016 and every once in a while we are fortunate enough to have guests on that are over the age of 75.
1:30.0	I make that distinction because if I'm honest I think I would only do a
1:36.8	podcast with people above the age of 75 I don't know if they want to do it with me
1:42.2	but I would certainly like to sit with them because as you'll hear in this conversation today with Gloria Steinem, which is still a sentence I'm trying to wrap my head around.
1:55.0	You'll hear about a life and there are few who've led a life as interesting and has varied and kind of genuinely courageous as
2:07.4	glorious dynam has. The challenge of course with any episode is how the hell do you talk about 85 years of life in
2:17.2	60 minutes and the more I do this the more I learn that you don't. That's okay. Instead, if you're honest and present in the moment
2:29.0	with the person that you're sitting across from, and this is true not just of conversations on
2:34.9	microphones, but in our lives. I really do believe you talk about whatever you're supposed to talk about in that moment.
2:45.0	And so for the next hour what I hope you're about to hear is a different kind of conversation with Gloria Steinem.
2:55.0	And I realize now that I haven't offered the kind of traditional biography
3:01.0	that I usually do in these intros but there's really nothing traditional about
3:05.4	glorious item and if you're here you probably don't need my reading of a
3:12.0	Wikipedia entry I'll just leave it at this. Feminism is
3:16.4	larger than any one person, it's a movement, but it's hard to imagine the movement being where it is today without the work of
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