A Woman's Place Is Everywhere

And what a gift she gave to all of us. Right up until the very end, Gloria continued to welcome women into her Upper East Side home, gathering generations together to strategize, share stories, and dream up ways to make the world better.

I wrote this after the first time I was lucky enough to sit in her living room:

Gloria’s apartment, on the Upper East Side, is the same one she’s lived in for decades, at one point with artist and former roommate Barbara Nessim. You can catch a glimpse of her soulful, storied space in Architectural Digest, but even that doesn’t do it justice. I could’ve spent hours just soaking it in, thinking of all the women who’ve had powerful, world-shifting conversations there. Chills.

With Gloria in her UES living room last Summer.

What a time to be alive, with 91-year-old Gloria Steinem still hosting intergenerational circles of women to strategize, share, and dream up ways to make the world better. Of course, I brought her a sweater. It read: “A woman’s place is everywhere" which she absolutely LOVED.

I’ll be thinking about my afternoon in Gloria’s living room for a long, long time.

And now I keep thinking about that room. All the women who sat in it. All the conversations. All the ideas that left the room and went out into the world.

Gloria spent her life opening doors for women, and then, quite literally, kept her own door open for the generations coming behind her.

And her work is far from over.

Women still earn less than men. The Equal Rights Amendment is still not part of the Constitution. Roe v. Wade, which protected the constitutional right to abortion for nearly 50 years, was overturned in 2022. And we still have never had a woman president.