Doing Sixty and Seventy
by Gloria Steinem
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Author: Gloria SteinemEdition: Hardcover
Audio: English (Unknown); English (Original Language); English (Published)
Published: 2006-09-01
ISBN: 097587442X
Number of pages: 72
Publisher: Elders Academy Press
Book Reviews of Doing Sixty and Seventy
Book Review: Provocative essays
Summary: 4 Stars
I was excited to see that Gloria Steinem has written a new book about aging, and eagerly ordered it. When I saw the book -- just 68 pages long and printed in a font about three times normal size, I felt cheated. It's not a "book" -- it's a series of two essays published in hard cover. Once I got past that realization and read the essays, I was glad that I had.
Steinem is now seventy-plus, and still radical. In fact, she claims that women get more radical as they age. This book includes her essay, "Doing Sixty," plus "Into the Seventies," a preface (which is actually an additional essay) looking back twelve years after writing "Doing Sixty."
Some tidbits from these thought-provoking essays:
"I used to joke that I thought I was immortal and this caused me to plan poorly."
"It was only after I'd become an old lady myself that I lost the habit of imposing my sentimental interpretation on old people."
"For women especially - and for men too, if they've been limited by stereotpyes -- we've traveled past the point when society cares very much about what we do... Though this neglect and invisibility may shock and grieve us greatly at first... it also creates a new freedom to be ourselves -- without explanation."
Joan Price
Author of Better Than I Ever Expected: Straight Talk about Sex After Sixty
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