Why read My Life on the Road?

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THE INSPIRATION BEHIND THE HIT BBC SERIES, MRS. AMERICA

Gloria Steinem had an itinerant childhood. Every fall, her father would pack the family into the car and they would drive across the country, in search of their next adventure. The seeds were planted: Steinem would spend much of her life…

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1 author picked My Life on the Road as one of their favorite books. Why do they recommend it?

Ellen Carol DuBois

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I am recommending this as the most personal of Steinem’s books. No list of books on the history of women’s rights would be complete without something about and by the most courageous, most consistent spokeswoman for feminism over the last half-century. Here Steinem tells the tale of her family, focused – surprisingly – on her eclectic and wandering father. The reader will be left with even great appreciation for Steinem and for the many and various routes women take to find their way to feminism and their full, true selves.

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