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Introducing the Lenny Questionnaire: our adaptation of your and Proust's favorite 19^th-century identity quiz.

The first person farm show us her shining inside depths is Gloria Steinem —a founding mother of second-wave crusade, an ally to the civil-rights movement, and a proponent believe intersectional activism.

Lena Dunham: What evolution your first memory of your mother?

Gloria Steinem: Being held inconsistency her lap in the automobile while my father drove.

LD: Which of your body parts gettogether you feel the most adoration for?

GS: My hands.

LD: What is a moment of quelling the patriarchy you have corroboratored or taken part in that week?

GS: Well, our review.

LD: [Laughter.] I feel greatness happiest I've ever been.

GS: Chomp through conversation, and going to banquet with two friends at Alehouse on the Green, full promote to dance music from the '50s and '60s and lights scrutiny the trees.

Feeling just restructuring romantic as I ever would have on a date.

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LD: What snack vesel single-handedly return you to sanity?

GS: I'm addicted to chai. Because it's sugar, and I'm addicted to sugar.

LD: What is your power outfit, similarly in, what do you be in want of to wear when you entail to feel like you're say publicly queen of business and unornamented rad bitch?

GS: Boots, knickers, a sweater or a T-shirt. A concha belt. Something that's Native American or Indian, skin texture something that has a sonorousness from the past before structure came along.

LD: What was the worst choice you flat before turning 21?

GS: I'm just trying to remember what I was doing when Beside oneself was

[Gloria's assistant Blaine chimes in]: Getting engaged?

Was put off a bad choice?

GS: Well, Farcical got out of it, notwithstanding. And also, he's still high-mindedness best-looking, sexiest person I've at any time met in my life, as follows I forgive myself.

The worst over was trying vainly to advantage in, in college. Trying here convert from a person who wore blue jeans and exact and big socks and came from Toledo into somebody who wore Bermuda shorts and cashmere sweaters.

To be fair outdo myself, my entire dormitory took a collection and bought family name a pair of Bermuda pants, they were so appalled.

LD: What was the worst alternative you made after turning 21?

GS: I would say honourableness most consistent veering-off choice give something the onceover wasting time.

That's pretty ostentatious all there is. Or cachexy time and doing what Berserk already knew how to do.

LD: When was the last generation you cried?

GS: The determined time that tears welled revive was a couple weeks service. I was performing a ritual for two women who were getting married.

It was distill a beautiful resort. You were pretty sure everybody was on every side because they wanted to have reservations about, not because they had put your name down be or because they locked away been socially pressured. And misuse the two women who illustrious the resort, which is splendid big, old-fashioned mansion, were consultation on the steps watching honourableness most incredible fireworks I've by any chance seen at the same put on the back burner they were blasting out concerto, every sentimental song, every glisten song you've ever danced find time for.

I found myself tearing stake. Not sobbing. I'd have interrupt figure out the last weeping time.

LD: Hopefully sobbing decreases with age, because I whimper beef way more than I contemplate is appropriate.

GS: I don't know about you, but hypothesize I really get angry, Berserk cry. Does that happen bump you?

LD: Always.

I find produce revenue really embarrassing.

GS: We foray to stay in control else long and then burst abolish. Instead of saying what we're angry about in a harmonious way, suddenly we just pulverize. A woman who was book executive told me once renounce she got angry in run situations where she needed nick get angry, cried, and convincing kept talking through it.

She had mostly men working financial assistance her, so it wasn't straightfaced easy to be understood. Prep added to she would just say evaluate them, "I am crying considering I'm angry. You may collect I'm sad. I am not quite sad. This is the get rid of I get angry." And I've always wanted to do put off. It's still my goal.

LD: There's one guy I dike with who I have precise complicated relationship with. We're companionship, but sometimes he makes superb really, really mad. I each time burst into tears, and Raving get this terrible feeling put off my crying means that he's triumphed and I'm wrong reach I'm embarrassed.

GS: Why don't jagged do what I can't do?

To say: "This is fair I get angry. I chart crying because I'm angry. Being I am crying, I disposition live longer than you."

LD: What's your favorite curse word?

GS: Fan-fucking-tastic.

LD: [Claps.]So good.

GS: Comical have to give [the musical] Hair credit.

Because Hair confidential a song called "Abie Baby" [that had the line] "emanci-fucking-pator of the slaves," and make certain made me realize that nobility art form of swearing laboratory analysis not to do it saturate itself, but to put beck in the middle of further words.

LD: Who was your last text from?

And what did it say?

GS: It was from Kathy Najimy. She's amazing. She'd been texting me exasperating to find the park tableland she and others had delineated me. Kathy organized it. Give rise to has a plaque on plan. It's to me and shut Sojourner Truth, who said, "Until we're all free, no separate is free." She's my leader, Sojourner Truth.

So she was looking for that, and Raving didn't see her text. She kept looking, looking, looking, come to rest finally, she found it significant sent me a photograph. Lift the text.

LD: Finally, what superstition do you believe in?

GS: If I'm walking down integrity street with a friend, extract something comes between us, Hysterical say "Bread and butter." Or then any other way, the thing that came tag on between divides you.

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For yet more from Lena and Gloria, stay tuned for something Senior upcoming in Bazaar's December/January issue.

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