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I was just reading this interview with Gloria Steinem from The New York Times Magazine. I hadn't heard about the radio station discussed in it before, and it seems like a worthwhile concept. But I was also suprised to read the bit about her living alone. As far as I knew, she was still married, and I wondered what happened. Turns out that her husband died in 2003. It is sad to me that they only had those three years of marriage together. I was never someone who was put off by her decision to marry. To the contrary, I appreciate any feminist who can provide another example of how to have a relationship built on equality. My husband and I strive for that in our marriage, but sometimes it is hard when there are so few role models for this kind of relationship. Still, we're making it work.
The New York Times Magazine
You never had children and seem to prefer living by yourself.
That has less to do with isolation than that I was a parent to my mother, who wasn’t able to function as one.
And where was your dad in all this?
He was a kind, loving gypsy. Until I was 10 or 11, half the year, at least, was spent in a house trailer, going to Florida or California and buying or selling antiques along the way. I always had a fantasy of a house with a white picket fence.
