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NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER Gloria Steinemwriter, activist, organizer, and inspiring leadertells a story she has never told before, a candid account of her life as a traveler, a listener, and a catalyst for change.
ONE OF O: THE OPRAH MAGAZINES TEN FAVORITE BOOKS OF THE YEAR | NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY Harpers Bazaar St. Louis Post-Dispatch Publishers Weekly

When people ask me why I still have hope and energy after all these years, I always say: Because I travel. Taking to the roadby which I mean letting the road take youchanged who I thought I was. The road is messy in the way that real life is messy. It leads us out of denial and into reality, out of theory and into practice, out of caution and into action, out of statistics and into storiesin short, out of our heads and into our hearts.
Gloria Steinem had an itinerant childhood. When she was a young girl, her father would pack the family in the car every fall and drive across country searching for adventure and trying to make a living. The seeds were planted: Gloria realized that growing up didnt have to mean settling down. And so began a lifetime of travel, of activism and leadership, of listening to people whose voices and ideas would inspire change and revolution.
My Life on the Road is the moving, funny, and profound story of Glorias growth and also the growth of a revolutionary movement for equalityand the story of how surprising encounters on the road shaped both. From her first experience of social activism among women in India to her work as a journalist in the 1960s; from the whirlwind of political campaigns to the founding of Ms. magazine; from the historic 1977 National Womens Conference to her travels through Indian Countrya lifetime spent on the road allowed Gloria to listen and connect deeply with people, to understand that context is everything, and to become part of a movement that would change the world.
In prose that is revealing and rich, Gloria reminds us that living in an open, observant, and on the road state of mind can make a difference in how we learn, what we do, and how we understand each other.
Praise for My Life on the Road
This legendary feminist makes a compelling case for traveling as listening: a way of letting strangers stories flow, as she puts it, out of our heads and into our hearts.People
Like Steinem herself, [My Life on the Road] is thoughtful and astonishingly humble. It is also filled with a sense of the momentous while offering deeply personal insights into what shaped her.O: The Oprah Magazine
A lyrical meditation on restlessness and the quest for equity . . . Part of the appeal of My Life is how Steinem, with evocative, melodic prose, conveys the air of discovery and wonder she felt during so many of her journeys. . . . The lessons imparted in Life on the Road offer more than a reminiscence. They are a beacon of hope for the future.USA Today
A warmly companionable look back at nearly five decades as itinerant feminist organizer and standard-bearer. If youve ever wondered what it might be like to sit down with Ms. Steinem for a casual dinner, this disarmingly intimate book gives a pretty good idea, mixing hard-won pragmatic lessons with more inspirational insights.The New York Times
Steinem rocks. My Life on the Road abounds with fresh insights and is as populist as can be.The Boston Globe

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Copyright 2015 by Gloria Steinem All rights reserved Published in the United - photo 1Copyright 2015 by Gloria Steinem All rights reserved Published in the United - photo 2

Copyright 2015 by Gloria Steinem

All rights reserved.

Published in the United States by Random House, an imprint and division of Penguin Random House LLC, New York.

R ANDOM H OUSE and the H OUSE colophon are registered trademarks of Penguin Random House LLC.

Grateful acknowledgment is made to the following for permission to reprint previously published material:

Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company and The Joy Harris Literary Agency, Inc.: Excerpts from In These Dissenting Times from Revolutionary Petunias & Other Poems by Alice Walker, copyright 1970 and copyright renewed 1998 by Alice Walker. Electronic rights and rights throughout the U.K. and Commonwealth are controlled by The Joy Harris Literary Agency, Inc. Reprinted by permission of Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company and The Joy Harris Literary Agency, Inc.

Sony/ATV Music Publishing LLC: Excerpt from Rainy Night in Georgia written by Tony White, copyright 1969 Combine Music Corp. All rights administered by Sony/ATV Music Publishing LLC, 424 Church Street, Suite 1200, Nashville, TN 37219. All rights reserved. Reprinted by permission.

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Steinem, Gloria.

My life on the road / Gloria Steinem.

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Evolution intended us to be travelers.Settlement for any length of time, in cave or castle, has at best beena drop in the ocean of evolutionary time.

Bruce Chatwin, A NATOMY OF R ESTLESSNESS

I board a plane for Rapid City South Dakota and see a lot of people in black - photo 3I board a plane for Rapid City South Dakota and see a lot of people in black - photo 4

I board a plane for Rapid City, South Dakota, and see a lot of people in black leather, chains, and tattoos. Airline passengers usually look like where theyre goingbusiness suits to Washington, D.C., jeans to L.A.but I cant imagine a convention of such unconventional visitors in Rapid City. Its the kind of town where people still angle-park their cars in front of the movie palace. My bearded seatmate is asleep in his studded jacket and nose ring, so I just accept one more mystery of the road.

At the airport, I meet five friends from different parts of the country. We are a diverse group of womena Cherokee activist and her grown-up daughter, two African American writers and one musician, and me. Weve been invited to a Lakota Sioux powwow celebrating the powerful place that women held before patriarchy arrived from Europe, and efforts now to restore that place.

As we drive toward the Badlands, we see an acre of motorcycles around each isolated diner and motel. This solves the mystery of the leather and chains, but creates another. When we stop for coffee, our waitress cant believe we dont know. Every August since 1938, bikers from all over the world have come here for a rally named after Sturgis, a town thats just a wide place in the road. They are drawn by this sparsely populated space of forests, mountains, and a grid of highways so straight that it is recognizable from outer space. Right now about 250,000 bikers are filling every motel and campground within five hundred miles.

Our band of six strong women takes note. The truth is we are a little afraid of so many bikers in one place. How could we not be? We have all learned from movies that bikers travel in packs, treat their women like possessions, and may see other women as sexual fair game.

But we dont run into the bikers because we spend our days traveling down unmarked roads, past the last stand of trees, in Indian Country. We eat home-cooked food brought in trucks, sit on blankets around powwow grounds where dancers follow the heartbeat of drums, and watch Indian ponies as decorated as the dancers. When it rains, a rainbow stretches from cant-see to cant-see, and fields of wet sweet grass become as fragrant as gigantic flowers.

Only when we return late each night to our cabins do we see motorcycles in the parking lot. While walking in Rapid City, I hear a biker say to his tattooed woman partner, Honey, shop as long as you wantIll meet you at the cappuccino place. I assume this is an aberration.

On our last morning, I enter the lodge alone for an early breakfast, trying to remain both inconspicuous and open-minded. Still, Im hyperconscious of a room full of knife sheaths, jackboots, and very few women. In the booth next to me, a man with chains around his muscles and a woman in leather pants and an improbable hairdo are taking note of my presence. Finally, the woman comes over to talk.

I just want to tell you, she says cheerfully, how much Ms. magazine has meant to me over the yearsand my husband, too. He reads some now that hes retired. But what I wanted to askisnt one of the women youre traveling with Alice Walker? I love her poetry.

It turns out that she and her husband have been coming to this motorcycle rally every year since they were first married. She loves the freedom of the road and also the mysterious moonscape of the Badlands. She urges me to walk there, but to follow the paths marked by ropes. During the war over the sacred Black Hills, she explains, Lakota warriors found refuge there because the cavalry got lost every time.

Her husband stops by on his way to the cashier and suggests I see the huge statue of Crazy Horse thats being dynamited out of the Black Hills. Crazy Horse riding his pony, he says, is going to make all those Indian-killing presidents on Mount Rushmore look like nothing. He walks away, a gentle, lumbering man, tattoos, chains, and all.

Before she leaves, my new friend tells me to look out of the big picture window at the parking lot.

See that purple Harley out therethe big gorgeous one? Thats mine. I used to ride behind my husband, and never took the road on my own. Then after the kids were grown, I put my foot down. It was hard, but we finally got to be partners. Now he says he likes it better this way. He doesnt have to worry about his bike breaking down or getting a heart attack and totaling us both. I even put Ms. on my license plateand you should see my grandkids faces when Grandma rides up on her purple Harley!

On my own again, I look out at the barren sand and tortured rocks of the Badlands, stretching for miles. Ive walked there, and I know that, close up, the barren sand reveals layers of pale rose and beige and cream, and the rocks turn out to have intricate womblike openings. Even in the distant cliffs, caves of rescue appear.

What seems to be one thing from a distance is very different close up.

I tell you this story because its the kind of lesson that can be learned only on the road. And also because Ive come to believe that, inside, each of us has a purple motorcycle.

We have only to discover itand ride.

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