Gloria Steinem, 2022
Writer, lecturer, political activist, and feminist organizer
48 x 60 inches
Oil on canvas
“In this moment of national despair, I am proud to be a New Yorker, a place of reproductive freedom for all who live here or travel here. But no one woman is free until all women are free.”
—Gloria Steinem
In the late 1960s and early 1970s, Gloria Steinem became nationally recognized as a leader and spokeswoman for the American feminist movement. In 1971, along with Dorothy Pittman-Hughes, she co-founded the groundbreaking Ms. Magazine whose mission was to uncover and expose the forces opposed to women’s equality. Aiming to revolutionize the lives of women she co-founded or advocated for innumerable critical movements, foundations or causes including the passing of the Equal Rights Amendment; the National Women’s Political Caucus; the Women's Action Alliance: the Women's Media Center and Voters for Choice. Her lifelong relentless activism for women’s rights and freedom both nationally and internationally has earned her numerous awards including receiving the Presidential Medal of Freedom from President Barack Obama in 2013 and the Freedom Award from the National Civil Rights Museum in 2019. Steinem’s lifelong activism on behalf of women’s rights, civil rights, Native American’s rights, LGBTQ+ rights, economic justice and peace has been an inspiration to the world.