Gloria Steinem

We remember writer, activist and feminist crusader GLORIA STEINEM. She died Wednesday at the age of 92. We'll listen to excerpts of two interviews with her. Her memoir, My Life on the Road, was dedicated to the doctor who helped Steinem get an illegal abortion when she was 22. She talks about the choices she made in her life--a life that has profoundly influenced women around the world. She helped to launch Ms. Magazine: created, owned, and operated by women, and targeted at increasingly self-aware women of the 1970s. It proved widely popular and hugely influential.

Writer, feminist, organizer, and the founder of Ms. Magazine, Gloria Steinem. She has a new book of essays, "Moving Beyond Words, (Simon & Schuster). In one of the essays she wonders -- what if Freud were female? -- and imagines what life would be like if one of the most "enduring, influential, and fiercely defended thinkers" in Western civilization were Dr. Phyllis Freud. In her new book Steinem also reflects on turning 60.

Feminist and writer Gloria Steinem. In her new book, "Revolution From Within," Steinem departs from her usual straightforward discussions about women and society, and she examines the link between personal self-esteem and outward issues such as feminism. (It's published by Little, Brown).

We remember writer, activist and feminist crusader GLORIA STEINEM. She died Wednesday at the age of 92. We'll listen to excerpts of two interviews with her. Her memoir, My Life on the Road, was dedicated to the doctor who helped Steinem get an illegal abortion when she was 22. She talks about the choices she made in her life--a life that has profoundly influenced women around the world. She helped to launch Ms. Magazine: created, owned, and operated by women, and targeted at increasingly self-aware women of the 1970s. It proved widely popular and hugely influential.

Book critic Maureen Corrigan reviews The Education of a Woman: The Life of Gloria Steinem, by Carolyn Heilbrun (Dial Publishing).