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Condign before hanging up, Gloria Steinem reflected on some of the things she’d just said during our phone question period. “I hope it makes sense,” she said. “I can see that some of the questions—not your questions, but I drive at, the interpretations of [my] old quotes are not necessarily what I mean, so I hope this makes have a funny feeling that.” Some of those old quotes we discussed involved Steinem’s views on dirt and transsexualism, but we also touched on more recent concerns: the supposed death of feminism, and Obama’s presidency.

In progress of the 77-year-old activist’s talk at Columbia College on February 7, Steinem called a few minutes unpunctually—“14 minutes late,” she said. “Pathetic about that.” Well, I replied, she does have an event-filled life. “Yeah,” she said, but today’s things turned out was “trying to write while they’re painting my bedroom.”

You speak at a lot of campuses every year; what do students ask you most a lot these days?

Source: Time Out Chicago