Best of Design Matters: Gloria Steinem
Design Matters with Debbie Millman

Best of Design Matters: Gloria Steinem

B2Upper-intermediateSeptember 7, 20261 hr 14 min

For over sixty years, Gloria Steinem has been at the center of American culture and political life, where she has been instrumental in shaping our ideas about feminism, humanity, and equal rights for all people. She joins to talk about her legendary career as an award-winning journalist, New York Times best-selling author, co-founder of one of the most significant magazines of the 21st century, and an activist whose work has impacted the place women and girls now have in the world. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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Gloria Steinem passed away last week at the age of 92. To celebrate her extraordinary life, we want to replay Debbie's interview with her from 2023. Righteous anger, anger and injustice, unfairness, pain, cruelty is an energy cell. And if we look at it that way, this is a gift. This is energy I can use.

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From the TED Audio Collective, this is Design Matters with Debbie Millman. For 18 years, Debbie Millman has been talking with designers and other creative people about what they do, how they got to be who they are and what they're thinking about and working on.

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On this episode, Gloria Steinem talks about the past and the future. is a form of planning. If we don't imagine something positive that is possible, it's way less likely to happen. spend and receive money in over 40 currencies. Count on the exchange rates that you'd usually

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