In Gloria Steinem’s 2015 memoir, “My Life on the Road,” she writes about Florynce Kennedy, the great civil rights activist and lawyer, teaching her to deal with hecklers.
The two women lectured on college campuses together in the 1970s, and the crowds always included a few people determined to disrupt them. Kennedy’s advice?
“Just pause, let the audience absorb the hostility, then say, ‘I didn’t pay him to say that.’”
