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(90,312 posts)back in the line than we even are now.
I wrote here, awhile back, about my own encounter with Gloria Allred. She stood behind me at a rough point in my own career when I was still fairly new in broadcasting. She never pushed or advocated. She took me to lunch and essentially let me cry on her shoulder. She sympathized and empathized and she listened to me. She offered to help if every I needed it but never ambulance-chased. She had total class and a heart as big as the planet Jupiter, and amazing discretion. She kept my secrets and my fears when the station manager insinuated I could be blackballed for making trouble. She was there when/if I needed her. She was there when/if a LOT of women in the L.A. market (and elsewhere too) needed her. JUST KNOWING THAT was enough.
Gloria Allred is worth her weight in gold-pressed latinum to me. She's a tower of strength and a flaming sword of righteousness, and I will never waver from feeling that way. She's a joke to some. A nuisance, and worse, to some more - mainly because they deserve it. And she's a saint to me.