Gloria Steinem was 1 of the astir recognizable names successful second-wave feminism, but she didn't remainder connected her laurels.
On Wednesday, Steinem died astatine her location successful New York City astatine the property of 92, "surrounded by immoderate of the galore who loved her," according to a station shared connected her Instagram page.
Interviews successful the last years of her life painted a image of personification arsenic motivated arsenic ever by activity and societal change.
In 2018, she told The Cut: "Most group must activity to live, but immoderate of america unrecorded to work." It's a communal taxable among long-living legends who person precocious passed, including Dolly Parton and David Hockney. Longevity experts opportunity having a firm intent successful life is linked to a agelong life.
Speaking to The Cut astatine the property of 84, Steinem said she thought of her life arsenic a stove topped pinch 12 pots.
"One cookware is boiling over, 1 needs salt, 1 is simply a caller recipe. I'm perpetually going from cookware to pot. There are penning projects, groups that I attraction astir and I'm connected the committee of, there's a batch of walking — I walk a 3rd to half of my life connected the roadworthy — location are governmental emergencies and campaigns, galore different pots. At immoderate fixed moment, location are 12 projects successful my life," she said.
At the time, she was an advisor to Vice Media, executive-producing the movie adjustment of her memoir, 2020's "My Life connected the Road," and remained involved successful societal activism.
Six years later, successful 2024, Vogue interviewed Steinem to people her 90th day and asked what she hoped to beryllium celebrating astatine her 100th.
"Certainly overmuch little accent connected race, ethnicity, and gender," she said. "Also, little accent connected groupism and much connected shared, unsocial quality individuality. And it goes without saying that wars, killing, and crime successful the thoroughfare are tragedies."
She told Bobbi Brown on the "I Am Me" podcast successful 2025 that she was excited to get older.
"I don't attraction astir getting old, isolated from I emotion it here, and I don't want to leave," Steinem said.
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Kashmira Gander is simply a elder editor astatine Business Insider's London bureau. She oversees reporters who screen health, first-person stories, user culture, immigration, and the changing workplace. She joined BI from Newsweek successful 2022, wherever she was the wellness analogous during the COVID pandemic, subject editor, and a news reporter. Previously, she was a newsman and manner writer astatine The Independent.Her activity has besides been published successful the London Evening Standard and The one newspaper.
