Written for a US audience, which was grating. The USA is not the best country in the world and it's not the only country to read books (far from it, in fact?) - surely Gloria Steinem is so well travelled that she would have a more global perspective? (You can take the feminist out of the USA, but you can't take the USA out of the feminist...) 
 US-centrism aside, it was very interesting to read about the beginnings of the feminist movement from someone who was there at the time and had a hand in shaping these historical events. She also wrote about what it was like to be there during other movements for equality including the Civil Rights movement. Fascinating. 
 I found the most interesting parts to be her musings on travelling and her memories of growing up with her unconventional mother and father. I would have liked to read more about this time although perhaps that's in another of her books. 
 "Taking the road - by which I mean letting the road take you - changed who I thought I was. The road is messy in the way that real life is messy. It leads us out of denial and into reality, out of theory and into practice, out of caution and into action, out of statistics and into stories - in short, out of our heads and into our hearts." 
 "Perhaps our need to escape into media is a misplaced desire for the journey." 
 "At a community college in California, an auditorium full of returning women students is into a long and serious discussion about how difficult it is to get their male partners to share equally in the housework and childcare. It's not just because the men are resistant; it's because the women themselves feel guilty, or don't want to seem like nags, or don't know how to divide work and childcare because they've never seen it at home. 
 One woman rises to speak: "Close your eyes and pretend you are living with a woman - how would you divide the housework? 
 There is a long pause. "Now, don't lower your standards." There are cheers of approval." 
 "A journey - whether it's to the corner grocery or through life - is supposed to have a beginning, middle and end, right? Well, the road is not like that at all. It's the very illogic and the juxtaposed differences of the road - combined with our search for meaning - that makes travel so addictive."