All these years later and our work is not done.I say Thank You Gloria. Helen,and Suzanne for being my mentors and the women of passion I looked up to and have fought hard to follow in your footsteps; giant as they are. There are still plenty of men willing to dismiss our work as trivial and nonsense. Sharing our stories of courage and pioneering spirit may be what the next Gloria Steinem, Helen Gurly Brown, or Suzanne Braun Levine needs to get her start. Sharing is an essential piece of the battle.
Back in 1972, when I signed on at Ms. magazine, our mission was to document the history women were making every day. Early detractors, like newsman Harry Reasoner, dismissed those efforts by pronouncing the material too sparse to sustain a magazine for more than a few issues. (more here)
