NEW YORK -- Gloria Steinem's apartment, with its cozy couches and kilim carpets, is the kind of place that invites you to curl up on a winter's afternoon for a good read or a long chat. The bookshelves overflow with titles like "The Sisterhood of Man" and "Sex and Destiny," volumes that speak to a life spent crusading for women's rights. In fact, the Upper East Side home seems at once a shrine for the women's movement and a spiritual haven for the woman herself. The wall in the foyer offers a gallery of memorabilia -- a photograph of Steinem smiling triumphantly with Angela Davis, a Bread and ...
