One day in 1970, the Village Voice sent writer Vivian Gornick to cover a women’s-liberation gathering on Bleecker Street. She came back a radical feminist. And it was her articles in the Voice that helped spread the word about the burgeoning gender equality movement that came to be known as second wave feminism. Since then Gornick has written many celebrated books including Fierce Attachmentswhich the New York Times called the best memoir of the last 50 years. Her latest, Taking a Long Look, is a collection of her essays on literature and culture. I walked through the streets of Greenwich Village with Gornick where we talked about all the things that make a long life worth living.