Gloria Steinem was major. From her berth in Manhattan and beginning early in the Nixon administration, she sparked a change in social consciousness while introducing “Ms.” as a substitute for “Miss” or “Mrs.” as she advanced the new cause of women’s liberation in the late ’60s and for many decades beyond.
For 55 years she was the face of the movement — iconic, sensible, articulate and dignified — and she had great-looking gray-streaked hair and wore fetching tinted glasses.
And she wasn’t a bot. An ideologue, yes, but a politically sklillful, practical-minded one. And quite attractive or, if you will, bonerish in her heyday. And contentedly sexual with a string of distinguished boyfriends including Mort Sahl, Mike Nichols, Jim Brown, Robert Benton, Rafer Johnson, Mort Zuckerman, etc. Steinem earned everyone‘s respect and allegiance. Steinem was 92 when she passed. Tip of hat, hand on heart.