Doing Sixty & Seventy

Reflections on women's aging from theNew York Times–bestselling author and feminist icon.

One day I woke up and there was a seventy-year-old woman in my bed . . .

Gloria Steinem was an eloquent and outspoken voice for women's rights and equality for more than four decades. In Doing Sixty & Seventy she addressed an essential concern of people everywhere—and especially of women: the issue of aging. Whereas turning fifty, in her experience, was "leaving a much-loved and familiar country," turning sixty meant "arriving at the border of a new one." With insight, intelligence, wit, and heartfelt honesty, she explored the landscapes of this new country and celebrated what she called "the greatest adventure of our lives."

While appreciating everybody's experiences as different, Steinem saw these years as charged with possibilities. Dealing with stereotypes and the "invisibility" that often accompany a woman's senior years can be as liberating as it is frustrating. It frees women as well as men to embrace that "full, glorious, alive-in-the-moment, don't-give-a-damn yet caring-for-everything sense of the right now."

This ebook features an illustrated biography of Gloria Steinem including rare images and never-before-seen documents from the author's personal collection.