Emma Watson Interviews Gloria Steinem for Our Shared Shelf - The Video

[Melissa]

I agree. I would love to see a video like this with each author we can.

[Kerry]

Thank you so much for sharing. *Almost* as good as being there.

I've really enjoyed this thread and everyone's excellent contributions. I have to agree it is ridiculous to edit Emma's comment and then for the media to over-react to it. I think the points re sexualising child stars and re women being in charge of their bodies are spot on - well said.

[Alma]

So great to have the video, thank you. Such a treat to see Gloria and Emma together. I'd be happy to help translate it into Italian if no one else is doing that? I'll wait for the transcript x

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I adored this.
I agree on the fact that we should totally make it a habit to have a chat with each author we read. It's so interesting to go deep into their vision of feminism and world issues.
Emma, you are powerful and influent enough to make it happen!

[Jackie]

I really like the video (I like it so much I had to watch it a second time today)! Both Emma and Gloria do such a great job standing up for women and equality, I agree that they are a great inspiration.

[Ana, Our Shared Shelf Moderator]

Alma wrote: "So great to have the video, thank you. Such a treat to see Gloria and Emma together. I'd be happy to help translate it into Italian if no one else is doing that? I'll wait for the transcript x"

Yeah, I'm still working on the transcription! Sorry, personal life and work got in the way, but I'll make sure to share it here ASAP!

[Carolina]

Ana wrote: "Alma wrote: "So great to have the video, thank you. Such a treat to see Gloria and Emma together. I'd be happy to help translate it into Italian if no one else is doing that? I'll wait for the tran..."

If there is anything I can help you with, I'd be delighted to do so! I'm a translator (English-Spanish, but also know Italian).

[Michelle]

I loved this so much! Thank you Emma for using my question! I am so honored!
I felt like Steinem skirted around quite a few questions throughout the whole interview, which was a tiny bit frustrating. But everything she had to say was so interesting and it was an absolute pleasure to be able to listen to both Emma and Gloria's thoughts and ideas.
I hope we get to see other authors interviewed throughout the year.

[Ana, Our Shared Shelf Moderator]

Just to share a bit of the transcription while I keep working on it:

In fact, the means are the ends, the means create the ends that we’re gonna get, so if we want humour and love and good food and dancing at the end, not that this is an end but you know what I mean, then we want humor and food and good dancing along the way, otherwise we won’t have it there, and we’ll burn out in the way, so I mean, I’m not gonna say I’m a model of doing this but I do think that the process, the friendship, the craziness, the ahas, you know, when you suddenly realise something, the sense that you’re doing what you love, you forget what time it is when you’re doing it, you love it so much, that you just keep going, it’s the most moving to me, and when I see people at the end of their lives or the end of their rope and they pick themselves up and they go on, it just makes me cry, you know, it is so miraculous, and it’s so much what we need to do, it does make me cry

Perhaps it's just me and my hormones having a roller coaster kind of day, but I was there myself and this part already had me, and now I'm listening to it again and I'm not too ashamed to say, I teared up a little. Yes. I'm Emma's age, so not even close to Gloria's wisdom and poise, but the older I grow the more this resonates with me. The friendships, the craziness, the ahas, the good memories. We need them. Sob. :')

[Ana, Our Shared Shelf Moderator]

Alright!!! I finished the transcription. Good Lord, 24 pages, hahaha, it was challenging sometimes. Now we just need to do some proof-editing and then it'll be available for translation into whichever language we deem appropriate. :) Spanish being the first one, hehe. :)

[Katelyn, Our Shared Shelf Moderator]

Ana is a SUPERSTAR!!!!

[Ana, Our Shared Shelf Moderator]

Katelyn wrote: "Ana is a SUPERSTAR!!!!"

Aw, you're too kind! :') Well, it's my way of saying thank you for this little big project that we all have going on in here. :)

[Laura Hallissey]

Amazing conversation, I really enjoyed it

[MeerderWörter]

@Ana: I'd like to volunteer for a German translation. It'll take a bit of time, but I'll do my very best, if I'm allowed to translate.

Btw, thank you. I wasn't able to understand everything, so a transcription is superb.

Katelyn wrote: "Ana is a SUPERSTAR!!!!"

You sure are, what an amount of work.

[Libby]

Thrilling to watch!

[Kathrin]

Thank you so much everyone for this video!

[Eleanor]

I have to say...this video was really mind opening and very inspiring. Just in the past couple years, I've been working on finding myself as a person. What I'm passionate about...what I want to do with my life. A lot of the things mentioned were quite new to me since I was not raised around that way of thinking...so I'm still processing it. A lot to take in, but it made sense and I connected to it. Change can be difficult, but it is well worth it.

Thank you for sharing it with us.

[Judy]

I read, then re-read revolution within. Years ago. Maybe time for another read. This book touched and inspired me. I think it is my favorite of all gloria steinem's works. I highly recommend it for the journey.

[Maria]

Yes interesting the conference and also the topics touched were very ispiring... But careful to the meanings of some words, humanism for example... It is neither not belive in God, nor the equality between mankind... It is that historial period after the middle ages where human beings become aware of their skllls and they ridiscover all the classics, the humanae litterae that's why humanism... It can't really be related to gender equality. Two complitely different topics✌️

[Evelia]

An interesting interview. :)