I once wrote that Gloria Steinem, the great feminist thinker and activist who died Wednesday at 92, was like an indispensable computer program running in the background of every American woman’s life.
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Gloria Steinem Deserves Praise but Maybe Not Worship
Gloria Steinem died. She was 92. I can’t adequately summarize in 100-or-so words at 7:45 a.m. on a Thursday morning how Gloria forever changed me, journalism, womankind, humankind, and the entire fucking world.
EDITOR’S NOTE: Gloria Steinem, who died Wednesday, was a freelance journalist who had not yet founded Ms. Magazine when she invited The Associated Press into her apartment for a feature on a life that found her equally comfortable at high-society dinners and in tenement halls.
Gloria Steinem overcame a fear of public speaking to become one of the most influential voices in the women’s rights movement. Her talent for making feminist ideas accessible to a broader audience helped bring about significant social change.
Authors, activists and admirers pay tribute to the feminist icon who died this week at the age of 92 Gloria Steinem, groundbreaking feminist campaigner, dies aged 92 ‘We badly need to raise our boys more like our girls’: Gloria Steinem – a life in quotes Moira Donegan on how Gloria Steinem personifi…
From going undercover as a Playboy bunny to founding Ms Magazine, Steinem brought feminism into the US mainstream. Carter Sherman explains her legacy By the time she died last week at the age of 92, Gloria Steinem had become almost synonymous with the modern feminist movement in the US.
To generations of women, the feminist campaigner was an inspiration, a fearless challenger of sexism and domestic violence. Guardian readers share memories of her courage, intelligence, and warmth What I appreciated most about Gloria was she let me feel normal.
I once wrote that Gloria Steinem, the great feminist thinker and activist who died Wednesday at 92, was like an indispensable computer program running in the background of every American woman’s life.
