Interview: Gloria Feldt On 9 Ways To Embrace Your Power

Gloria Feldt has a passion for bettering women’s lives.  She’s a renowned activist, commentator,  teacher, and author.   In her early years as a mother of three living in west Texas, she called herself  a “desperate housewife.”  Yet she rose to find her voice as President and CEO of Planned Parenthood from 1996-2005.

“It’s up to us to develop a more positive relationship with power, to define power on our terms and embrace it…”  Gloria Feldt

Her most recent book “No Excuses–9 Ways Women Can Change How We Think About Power” has been received with widespread praise.  It’s been called “groundbreaking” and “attitude-changing,” and “the most daring.”

I’ve known Gloria for several years now and have attended her inspiring lectures.  She’s certainly embraced her own power as her book is climbing best-seller lists.  I am delighted I had the opportunity to ask Gloria how she finally found her own identity and to get her advice for others as we begin 2011… 

Interview: Rebecca Traister On Why “Big Girls Don’t Cry” —— The 2008 Election

Rebecca Traister’s new book “Big Girls Don’t Cry” gives extraordinary insight into the presidential campaign of 2008 and an election she says that “changed everything for American women.”

This journalist and writer about politics and gender for Salon uses her coverage of the election as a jumping off point for her analysis of  what happened during that history making year.

A reader emailed that she wanted Rebecca to be interviewed for this website.  “Rebecca gave a lot of thought to the warp-speed with which women have transformed–and been transformed by–the political arena,” wrote my friend.

“…there is nothing wrong with wanting a woman to interrupt the history of white male presidential power. That’s actually a progressive impulse…”
Rebecca Traister

The more I read the book, the more questions I had for Rebecca about this transformative election and her non-teary title.  She answered them all…