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August 15, 2011
By Shelby Knox August 15, 2011 Women's Media Center's twenty-something commentator appreciates the HBO documentary, but also wishes for a deeper treatment of WMC Cofounder Gloria Steinem’s philosophy and activism. Gloria Steinem at a news conference in 1969; Jason Laure/HBO Near the end of Gloria: In Her Own Words , which premieres tonight on HBO, the title feminist quotes Susan B. Anthony when she says “Our job is not to make young women grateful, but to make them ungrateful.” Steinem insists onscreen, as she does personally and patiently to women who approach her on the street worried their...
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