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With the launch of this website we are celebrating the new home for Women in Second Adulthood along with the publication of my new book: FIFTY IS THE NEW FIFTY: 10 LIFE LESSONS FOR WOMEN IN SECOND ADULTHOOD. In my books, I have collected anecdotes, insights, and wisdom from women at a new frontier of self-discovery; their stories, along with front-line scientific research and understanding from those professionals who are monitoring our journey, offer practical guidelines for all of us. On this website we can do the …

“I AM BECOMING MORE RADICAL WITH AGE.”
– Gloria Steinem
To celebrate Gloria’s 75th Birthday and to honor her unique and transformational work as an organizer and activist in the women’s and broader social justice movements, the Ms. Foundation for Women, Inc. has established The Gloria Steinem Fund for Organizing.
Gloria has traveled the United States and the world, for more than 30 years, igniting powerful new connections between women across race and class that have inspired so many to discover and let loose their own rebellious, activist selves.
“Once I began to listen …

When Gloria Steinem famously proclaimed “This is what forty” – and then fifty, sixty, and now seventy – “looks like!” I totally endorsed her message: if each of us stops trying to hide our years, we will liberate each benchmark for all of us. And in all my writing about women’s Second Adulthood I have passionately put forward the conviction that for many women, myself included, the years after fifty are the most dynamic, authentic, and fun of all. In fact, I have just signed a contract to write a …