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 Gloria s growth and also the growth of a revolutionary movement for equality and the story of how surprising encounters on the road shaped both. The seeds were planted: Gloria realized that growing up didn t have to mean settling down. 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. 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 stories in short, out of our heads and into our hearts." Gloria Steinem had an itinerant childhood. The road is messy in the way that real life is messy. 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 road by which I mean letting the road take you changed who I thought I was. "NEW YORK TIMES "BESTSELLER Gloria Steinem writer, activist, organizer, and inspiring leader tells 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 MAGAZINE" S TEN FAVORITE BOOKS OF THE YEAR -NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY "Harper s Bazaar St.
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