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Doing Sixty and Seventy

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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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Gloria Steinem is both a chronicler and philosopher... this wonderful book reveals both those aspects of her. It's a handbook for anyone who is aging -- and aren't we all?