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ON Tuesday, Gloria Steinem turns 80.
Don’t hassle to name. She’s planning to rejoice in Botswana. “I assumed: ‘What do I actually need to do on my birthday?’ First, get out of Dodge. Second, journey elephants.”
Only a few folks have aged as publicly. It’s been 4 a long time since she informed a reporter, “That is what 40 appears to be like like.” Again then many ladies, together with Steinem herself, fudged their age once they left their 20s, so it was a fairly revolutionary announcement. A decade later she had a “That is what 50 appears to be like like” get together on the Waldorf for the good thing about Ms. Journal. Steinem, who has steadily stated that she expects her funeral to be a fund-raiser, has been utilizing her birthdays to earn a living for worthy causes ever since. Earlier than heading off to Botswana, she, together with Rabbi Arthur Waskow, was feted at a “That is what 80 appears to be like like” profit for the Shalom Heart in Philadelphia.
Ever the optimistic thinker, Steinem composed a listing of the great issues about beginning her ninth decade. A dwindling libido, she theorized, could be a terrific benefit: “The mind cells that was obsessed are actually free for every kind of nice issues.”
“I attempt to inform youthful ladies that, however they don’t consider me,” she stated in a pre-Botswana interview. “Once I was younger I wouldn’t have believed it both.”
Her well-known hair is coloured, however in any other case, there’s been no exterior intervention. She likes to recall a buddy who proudly reported having rebutted the feminist-got-a-face-lift rumors by asserting: “I noticed Gloria the opposite day and she or he seemed horrible.”
Truly, she doesn’t look horrible in any respect. She appears to be like nice. She appears to be like precisely the best way you’ll need to think about Gloria Steinem 80.
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