Is Gov. Sarah Palin the triumph of feminism?
2008 October 12
Intelligent, powerful women seem to think so. At least they said as much at Newsweek’s Women & Leadership conference last week, which I got to attend as a Columbia J-School alum (more video).
The conference took place in tandem with the Women & Leadership issue, which features Palin’s controversially untouched image on the cover and profiles ten powerful women, from Tyra Banks to Dara Torres, inside.
Celeb activist Rosario Dawson was featured as were Dee Dee Myers, Tina Brown and Anna Quindlen, who interviewed Cynthia Nixon on-stage and wowed me with her assured, measured style of asking questions. Nixon’s sound byte of the hour, given when discussing career choice: “Imagine who you would be if there was no one else in the world.”
