What Gloria Steinem Learned From Anita Hill

8 Ways of Looking at Power

What Anita Hill Taught Us About Speaking Truth to Power...in 17 Syllables

O, The Oprah Magazine | From the September 2009 issue of O, The Oprah Magazine

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Photo: Courtesy of Gloria Steinem

A river of Truth
Ends at a dam of bias—
Truth floods and moves on.

— Gloria Steinem (Find out how Gloria discovers power in her own life)

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