The Glorias

832 00:58:41,767 --> 00:58:43,836 will be taken more seriously than me. 833 00:58:44,403 --> 00:58:45,605 That simple. 834 00:58:46,171 --> 00:58:47,307 You white women. 835 00:58:47,807 --> 00:58:50,075 If you don't stand up for yourselves, 836 00:58:50,309 --> 00:58:52,144 how you gonna stand up for anybody else? 837 00:58:52,176 --> 00:58:53,211 [crowd agreeing] 838 00:58:53,245 --> 00:58:56,115 [man] <i>We will now be blessed with a solo...</i> 839 00:58:56,147 --> 00:58:58,751 - Mahalia is about to sing. - <i>...by Mahalia Jackson.</i> 840 00:58:58,783 --> 00:58:59,919 [crowd cheering] 841 00:58:59,952 --> 00:59:05,925 <i>♪ I've ♪</i> 842 00:59:06,191 --> 00:59:09,995 <i>♪ Been 'buked ♪</i> 843 00:59:12,031 --> 00:59:14,767 <i>♪ And I've ♪</i> 844 00:59:15,868 --> 00:59:19,305 <i>♪ Been scorned ♪</i> 845 00:59:22,207 --> 00:59:27,747 <i>♪ I've ♪</i> 846 00:59:29,347 --> 00:59:30,916 <i>♪ Been... ♪</i> 847 00:59:31,149 --> 00:59:34,686 [siren wailing] 848 00:59:34,919 --> 00:59:37,889 Jack told me the secret to interviewing Bobby Kennedy. 849 00:59:37,923 --> 00:59:39,191 - Jack? - Jack Newfield 850 00:59:39,223 --> 00:59:40,292 from <i>The Village Voice.</i> 851 00:59:41,026 --> 00:59:43,963 He said, um, Bobby only answers questions 852 00:59:43,995 --> 00:59:46,164 if he thinks the reporter doesn't know the subject 853 00:59:46,198 --> 00:59:47,867 or better yet, even disagrees, 854 00:59:47,899 --> 00:59:50,269 so... so we're gonna have to pretend 855 00:59:50,301 --> 00:59:52,271 we don't know the answers to our questions. 856 00:59:53,939 --> 00:59:55,274 You know, Mr. Bennett, that every year, 857 00:59:55,307 --> 00:59:57,343 there's a pretty girl who comes to New York 858 00:59:57,376 --> 00:59:59,711 and pretends to be a writer before she gets married. 859 01:00:00,245 --> 01:00:03,850 Well, Gloria is this year's pretty girl. 860 01:00:05,316 --> 01:00:06,918 [both laugh] 861 01:00:10,122 --> 01:00:12,258 You know what, you can say what you want, 862 01:00:12,290 --> 01:00:14,093 but some of us are actually becoming the man 863 01:00:14,126 --> 01:00:15,662 we thought we wanted to marry. 864 01:00:19,798 --> 01:00:20,966 Did you say something? 865 01:00:21,667 --> 01:00:24,870 I didn't say anything. Why didn't I object? 866 01:00:24,903 --> 01:00:27,106 - Get out and slam the door. - No, no, you will. 867 01:00:27,138 --> 01:00:28,907 You will and... and plenty of times, 868 01:00:28,941 --> 01:00:30,376 like, lots of times. 869 01:00:30,408 --> 01:00:32,444 Speaking your mind will get you in deep trouble. 870 01:00:33,479 --> 01:00:34,681 Right? 871 01:00:37,883 --> 01:00:38,785 [chuckles] 872 01:00:39,818 --> 01:00:42,320 Love the Bobby piece. You're a good writer, Gloria. 873 01:00:43,388 --> 01:00:45,191 In fact, you write like a man. 874 01:00:47,024 --> 01:00:48,060 Is that a compliment? 875 01:00:48,660 --> 01:00:49,828 - Funny. - Listen, I've... 876 01:00:50,528 --> 01:00:51,897 I've done the profiles. 877 01:00:52,397 --> 01:00:55,734 Bobby Kennedy, Baldwin, Bellow, Dorothy Parker, 878 01:00:55,767 --> 01:00:57,435 I even did the Marco Fontaine piece 879 01:00:57,468 --> 01:00:59,137 about the dancer I couldn't be. 880 01:01:00,372 --> 01:01:01,774 [sighs] Max, I... 881 01:01:02,374 --> 01:01:04,209 I want to write about the women's movement. 882 01:01:04,577 --> 01:01:06,011 - What movement? - I wanna write 883 01:01:06,044 --> 01:01:07,914 about why the face of congress is male, 884 01:01:08,281 --> 01:01:10,082 and the face of welfare is female. 885 01:01:10,115 --> 01:01:13,285 Why homemakers are called women who don't work. 886 01:01:13,318 --> 01:01:16,055 Though they work longer, harder, and for less pay 887 01:01:16,088 --> 01:01:18,022 - than any other class of worker. - Gloria, I... 888 01:01:18,055 --> 01:01:21,126 I wanna write about why women are 70 percent 889 01:01:21,160 --> 01:01:24,464 of the productive labor in the world, paid and unpaid. 890 01:01:24,729 --> 01:01:26,965 Yet they own only one percent of the property. 891 01:01:26,999 --> 01:01:27,899 - Are you finished? - I wanna write about 892 01:01:28,301 --> 01:01:32,505 why masculinity means leading and femininity means following, 893 01:01:32,537 --> 01:01:35,006 in the odd dance of daily life. 894 01:01:35,240 --> 01:01:36,274 [sighs, whistles] 895 01:01:37,075 --> 01:01:38,077 Well? 896 01:01:38,544 --> 01:01:40,246 Look, I'm sorry. 897 01:01:40,278 --> 01:01:42,414 But if I publish an article saying women are equal, 898 01:01:42,446 --> 01:01:43,948 I'll have to publish one side by side 899 01:01:43,981 --> 01:01:45,150 saying that they're not. 900 01:01:45,984 --> 01:01:46,986 It's not my opinion. 901 01:01:47,419 --> 01:01:49,888 But in journalism, as you know,