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Gloria Steinem is 75?! Outrageous!

By Laura Baudo Sillerman
By Laura Sillerman Naturally one would weep at a birthday party for a icon who calls upon everyone there to be outrageous. Weep people did last night, at one of many celebrations of Gloria Steinem’s 75th birthday at the home of her dear friend Marlo Thomas.  Steinem was as funny as inspiring as when she told students at Smith College’s…
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Clay Felker: A New York Night He Would Have Loved

By Patricia Yarberry Allen, M.D.
It’s a quarter to three and I can’t sleep.  Jazz notes are running through my mind and the unbelievable voice of the eternally young Judy Collins sings an acapella Amazing Grace. This wasn’t a dream. It really happened.  Last night at the New York Society for Ethical Culture,  New York celebrated the life of the amazing man from Missouri who made…
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Politics

Gloria Steinem Speaks Out On Palin – Wrong Woman, Wrong Message

By Womens Voices for Change
In a Los Angeles Times column, feminist leader Gloria Steinem weighs in on the selection of Sarah Palin: Here’s the good news: Women have become so politically powerful that even the anti-feminist right wing — the folks with a headlock on the Republican Party — are trying to appease the gender gap with a first-ever female vice president. We owe…
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Is Kamala Harris California’s Future Governor?; Steinem Schools the Financial Times; Dara Torres Inspires Boomer Women to Push Harder

By Womens Voices for Change
From courtroom to the campaign trail to….a governor’s mansion? This week’s MORE Magazine profile of Kamala Harris, the 44-year-old San Francisco district attorney who counts among her law-school buddies a certain Illinois senator: “I got things to do too,” she teases, effortlessly dialing up the street in her cadence as she slips into scolding-auntie mode. “You think I don’t have…
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Clay Felker’s Life – and a Special Tribute to Gail Sheehy

By Patricia Yarberry Allen, M.D.
By Dr. Patricia Yarberry Allen Beneath a canopy of moist trees, and just the promise of a soft rain, a very special man was laid to rest this weekend in Sag Harbor, New York. Clay Felker was a legend and was known to be an exacting task master. At Oakland cemetary, he would have loved the Navy guard, the hymns,…
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