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Gloria Steinem's Reading List

The author, most recently, of the memoir “My Life on the Road” says poetry has replaced novels in her reading. “If you poured water on a great poem, you would get a novel.”

By the Book: Gloria Steinem (2015)

NYT By the Book column (2015-10-29).

Source: www.nytimes.com

The Color Purple

Alice Walker · 1982 · Buy on Amazon

"It has all the philosophical depth of any great novel, yet because it uses the language of country people, translators in, say, China and Japan had to honor the language of their own country people."

Woman on the Edge of Time

Marge Piercy · Buy on Amazon

Sisterhood Is Powerful

Robin Morgan · Buy on Amazon

Sex and World Peace

Valerie Hudson · Buy on Amazon

"It proves that the most reliable predictor of whether a nation is violent within itself — or will use military violence against another nation — is not poverty, natural resources, religion or even degree of democracy; it's violence against females."

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