European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - January 22, 1992, Darmstadt, Hesse                                World s no. 1 feminist says insecurity fuelled her drive by Dana Kennedy the associated press the world s most famous feminist sits in an overstuffed armchair in her living room stroking her fat persian cat Magritte and explaining Why she can t have any food in the House wearing a pair of baggy Black pants and an Amber Turl Lenok Orsey with a Hole in the right armpit. Gloria Lumem. Serene and Distant smiles when she talks but always looks a Little sad obesity runs in my family it s our Way of coping Quot says Ste Mem. Who is Rad thin. Quot my father weighed Over 300 pounds and my sister has always had a serious weight problem f m a food Junkie but i keep it under control if i had Lood Here it would just overwhelm  ii May seem unusual that Ste Mem a Symbol of leadership and liberation Lor thousands of women is concerned Wilh so personal a subject even More Peculiar Aie these admissions of weakness Long at Odds with her Jiu ised. Glamorous image Bui at 57, for the first time in her life. Ste Mem is taking her crusade closer to Home she s spent More than two decades guiding the women s movement in the pages of is Magazine which she he lied found at rallies on television and in hundreds of speeches now Steinem has come out with a new Book that helps guide the individual and has helped her come to terms with herself called revolution from within. A Book of Selt esteem. The Book was intended to explore How Low self Worth Cupples people especially women stoic a never envisioned the Book As a personal Purnal but when she showed part of the manuscript to a therapist Iriondo several years ago it was pointed Oul that she had a sell esteem problem and had left herself out of the Book so began what Ste Mem Calls the most dramatic journey of tier life i fell i did t deserve to focus on myself Quot she says Quot i i Rad been a Oai Otaker Tor an entire movement but As i did research Lor this Hook i Kopl recognizing myself in some of in i be Learned so much from this m s been like a Bridge to another country Quot watching her hold Leilh i Uiti the Eclectic upper Easl Side Brownstone she has called Home since 1967, it s hard to imagine that Ste Mem could experience any journey More Jiro Lound than escaping her lonely Ohio childhood readers action line end of year Utility Bills hit renter a i m a to Boru to in Lam  nil living in the dutch Economy there is currently a government housing shortage quite a Lew Pemon nol Are voiced to live on the eco Nori by the it Pohlem is the local practice of tin Dulch Utility company it figures your Utility rate when you inst move in this cite i. 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No Way to is o v i r Hunt Gloria Steinem has written a new Book exploring the importance of self esteem. Her parents split up when she was 10 her father abandoned the family leaving Gloria to care Lor her mentally ill Mother Ruth Steinem who worked briefly As a newspaper reporter often stayed in bed and frequently hallucinated Gloria solder sister was away at school most of the time others might have folded under the pressure of whal Ste Mem Calls Quot being my Mother s Mother Quot but to hear Steinem Tell to. She Rose to the occasion and kept rising she graduated from Smith collage and embarked on a dazzling career As a journalist Quot i think i was definitely fuelled by  she says i was always driven by the need to help other women i always was identifying with the victim without realizing it loss in t there an outlet somewhere or at the very least a Way to recoup this loss the grip program does not work Here because the landlords Are mostly corporations t have been served with a Bill Lor about 1.700 Del this figure does not include the 2,000 Del that i paid in the year i do not have air conditioning and i keep my House heated around 70 degrees i do not feel that i am being unreasonable and would like some Avenue to pursue in Lee Outing this loss Clayton g. Kitzero Dordrecht Hollanda. Page 18 the stars and stripes maj. Daniel p. Sullivan acting commander 54th area support group replies the author is Correct in Many of the Points Mertz one in reference to Standard practices of Hie dutch utilities i Imp my s. Tin Pic payment done by the new of cup int is in. He. I Vised on the previous possibly dutch occupants usage it is Tor tins Louson and to avoid any Fin ant a hardship on the occupant that this Oulu e in Nam the Utility companies that the usage of the u s occupant a spec led to new end the usage of to to j i Coons cd i. Up i i the new of ennui it a it also encouraged to Pung a he he Utility meter endings so that the of May t k a k a if nto h a   company  am Oca or Wnnie i a i a a a. A at a Intel Dale i a an Wane the author in. I the. Pc. Us a i a a i it a to a. Hiim my a h. . A ii toe e i a ii to a. A wednesday. January 22. 1992 was part of me Quot it was not until she reached her Early 50s that Steinem the victim caught up with Steinem the icon Quot i had been living an externalized life Quot she said. Quot i took what happened in my childhood and buried it i never used to feel real if you re neglected As a child you Don t feel you exist. I made myself real by making myself useful. But then i Burnt out Quot Steinem who was fond of telling her friends that Quot an examined life in t Worth living Quot had never been Able to stay in a room with a radio on Quot i d always race Over to turn Ott the radio a she remembers Quot i never thought to wonder Why i had built this Wall around me and my feelings. One Day i realized the radio had been the Only sound in the apartment where t lived with my Mother Quot it continued with bigger things in particular a disastrous love affair with millionaire real estate Developer Mortimer Zuckerman publisher of the u s news and world report that ended several years ago Steinem brings up Zuckerman without being asked and Calls him a Quot free floating Ball of anger if that description is True he must be the Polar opposite of Steinem a at least on the surface but just As others use nastiness As a shield. Steinem seems to keep people at Bay by being Nice. With the possible exception at Zuckerman. Steinem appears to Harbor no ill will toward anyone both family and friends have disappointed her Over the years but her Only emotion seems to be one of sympathy for All. She mentions there were inaccuracies in a recent Magazine article on her written by a close Friend but rather than reacting angrily Steinem says sweetly that her Friend meant no harm. She is equally forgiving of her parents both of whom could probably have done More to make her childhood less difficult Quot i think they did the Best they  she says but As she talks just a Tew Teet from her tiny Kitchen dominated by the kind of Large weight scale used by doctors there s often an Edge to her equanimity it s As it anger like food in t allowed in her apartment because it too. Might overwhelm her As part of the process of writing revolution from. Within Steinem underwent therapy to Deal with her past Quot it was painful and its certainty not Over Quot she says. Quot in a still afraid that it i look too far into the past that i la dissolve into tears and never find my Way  author wants to recoup at the same time i am unclear on what the author Means by the grip government rental housing program program does not work Here because the landlords Are mostly corporations i can assure the author that the grip program does work the program is so popular that to have increased grip units from 106 on sept 30 1989. To 223 on dec 31. 1991 the fact that at times we have a grip contract with a corporation does not negatively influence the program tilts housing office apologizes that the author Tor wit Tever reason missed out on important information. 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