Gloria Steinem spent her entire life fighting, strategizing, envisioning, compromising, and creating coalitions so that women and men everywhere would have better lives.
She wasn’t perfect–she supported the ghastly Satanic Ritual Abuse hysteria of the 1980s and 1990s, supported the poisonous idea of Repressed & Recovered Memory, and believed in the censorship of pornography.
But ultimately, she left a titanic legacy that puts her squarely in the heavens alongside Harvey Milk, Martin Luther King, Rachel Carson, and Daniel Ellsberg. She…