00:00We all felt very inspired by Gloria's choice to spend her life standing up for women.
00:07She was deeply inspiring to me, and I think many of us feel a deep debt of gratitude to her.
00:14She has been somebody whose career I followed for many years, and I'm certainly not the only
00:20person that has been affected by her or could speak on her behalf, but as somebody who admires
00:27her, I'm grateful for the opportunity to express my gratitude.
00:31I live on the Upper East Side, we do, and I thought, okay, we've got to come down here
00:37first thing and really honor what she did for women.
00:41She was very inclusive.
00:43She was pro-choice, but she didn't dictate anybody's philosophy.
00:49You could do whatever you wanted to do, but she knew who she was, and she wanted to be
00:56free, and she lived that way.
00:58She helped found Ms. Magazine in the, I think, 69, 70, early 70s.
01:04That was instrumental in my formation as a young person starting out in college and wanting
01:17to have my own career.
01:18I didn't want to depend on a man for my living, and that was so reinforcing to have women like
01:26her.
01:27Obviously, it wasn't just her, and she was so articulate about it and not, you know, off-putting
01:36at all.
01:37She wanted to include everybody, and women could have the choice.
01:41That's the thing.
01:42Whatever they wanted to do, you know, you could have the choice.
01:47She's definitely one of the most influential people for women's rights and human rights
01:51and all that, so that's why I'm here.
01:53How would you choose to remember her?
01:56Talking to people about her and how important she was, and dropping off red carnations, because
02:02I know she liked red, and saying she's a hero to all women, because she is, whether they
02:07know it or not.
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