I sometimes worried I'd never experience that sense of wonder you feel meeting a new friend or traveling to a new place for the first time. I was afraid the major milestones of my life, marriage and childbirth, were past. Was it foolish to hope I still had something exciting ahead of me, something even important, that I could have a life of my own?

Activism

On August 26 2008 (Women's Equality Day) Lilly Ledbetter spoke at the Democratic National Convention on the topic of pay equity. TV Appearances
On October 31 2012 Lilly Ledbetter appeared as a guest on the Colbert Report to promote her book "Grace and Grit: My Fight for Equal Pay and Fairness at Goodyear and Beyond. In 1968 Lilly Ledbetter passed the H&R Block tax preparation exam and became an associate with H&R Block.

She has since become a women's equality activist. Goodyear Tire & Rubber Co.