92-Year-Old Woman Reflects on a Lifetime of Fighting for Women’s Rights

Gloria Marie Steinem, born March 25, 1934, in Toledo, Ohio, has spent more than six decades shaping the modern feminist movement as a journalist, activist, and organizer. Her early life was marked by instability after her parents’ divorce, and she spent much of her childhood caring for her mother, who struggled with chronic depression, while attending school irregularly. Steinem’s father worked as a traveling salesman, and the family moved frequently before her…