![]() She became aware of the women’s rights-women’s liberation movement in the 1960s. to work as a free-lance journalist and an avid participant in political campaigns, the first being the 1952 Adlai Stevenson campaign for president. ![]() Gloria Steinem and Dorothy Pitman Hughes, circa 1972. She credits this experience with teaching her the value of listening and the amazing things that happen when people share with each other in groups. The walking group invited villagers to meet with them, and with each other, to share their grievances and to provide reassurance after the riots. She studied at the University of Delhi and spent several months with a Gandhi-inspired group who walked from village to village after terrifying caste riots in east India. ![]() She went to Smith College on a scholarship-Government major, Phi Beta Kappa-and, then, spent two years in India on a fellowship. This migrant life ended when her parents divorced and she lived in Toledo with her clinically depressed mother. She writes with sadness about her lonely mother who worked as a journalist before she married. Though she longed for a “real home” when she was a child, she is grateful for her father’s “faith in a friendly universe” and credits him with her tolerance for a life of relative insecurity. The life on-the-road theme begins as she recalls that until she was ten years old her family spent most of each year travelling around the country as her father bought and sold antiques. ![]()
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