Source: Common Dreams
by Pamela Shifman
“‘How can I be of service?’ That was the phone message Gloria Steinem kept leaving at the office of the African National Congress Parliamentary Women’s Caucus in Cape Town, South Africa in 1997. I had arrived in the country a year earlier, working as a young staffer for some of the first women elected to lead South Africa’s new democracy. When they asked if I wanted to call that American woman back, I jumped at the chance. Soon Gloria was on her way to Cape Town, and I was assigned to pick her up at the airport. As this global icon (something she hated to be called) stepped into my rusted car, the first thing I remember is asking her to keep her head near the window as exhaust crept in through a hole in the floor. (She didn’t flinch.)” (09/16/26)
https://www.commondreams.org/opinion/gloria-steinem-hope-a-holic