Celebrity Deaths of 2026: ESPN’s Barry Melrose, Gloria Steinem and More Stars We’ve Lost This Year
Gloria Steinem’s words join the room’s permanent tribute to the suffrage movement and the activist whose writing helped shape modern feminism.
- Gloria Steinem, an iconic feminist leader and writer, died September 2 at age 92, leaving behind a six-decade legacy of American activism.
- In 1963, Steinem gained national attention for "A Bunny's Tale," her undercover exposé revealing pervasive sexism and exploitative conditions at New York's Playboy Club.
- Steinem co-founded Ms. Magazine in 1969 and the National Women's Political Caucus in 1971, providing critical support and training for women seeking elected office.
- Her legacy is honored at the Nashville Public Library's Votes for Women room, a permanent installation celebrating the 19th Amendment, where Steinem's words greet visitors.
- Steinem championed equality throughout her life, famously declaring that feminism is about "the ability to choose what's right at each time of our lives.
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Steinem lifted up women, changed American history
At the Nashville Public Library, Gloria Steinem's words greet visitors in the "Votes for Women" room, the permanent installation that honors the ratification of the 19th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution.
Meet one of Gloria Steinem’s forgotten male victims
Randall Eugene “Randy” Mills By my count, the New York Times has published at least 20 articles, columns, videos, podcasts, or other “content” on the glories of Gloria Steinem since her death September 2. The latest is entitled “Keep Lighting the Torches That Gloria Steinem Lit.” You’d think they would eventually run out of ass-kissing cliches, but the supply has clearly not yet been exhausted. Bathe for long enough in this hagiographical whirlp…
Pondering what Gloria Steinem now knows
It is understandable that so many attributed the words to Steinem, who died Sept. 2 at age 92; not only did she gleefully repeat them, her own rhetoric echoed or expanded on the sentiments as she became the face of second wave feminism for six decades.
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