Steinem, Gloria

1934 – She was born on the 25th of March this year in Toledo, Ohio.

1962 - She became politically active in the feminist movement, and the media seemed to appoint Steinem as a feminist leader of sorts.

1972 - She helped start the feminist Ms. Magazine and wrote for the magazine until it was sold in 1987.

1974 – She co-founded the Coalition of Labor Union Women.

1977 – She Participated in the National Conference of Women in Houston, Texas.

1986 – She had to deal with a number of personal setbacks, including the diagnoses of breast cancer.

1991 - She became Ms. Magazine’s consulting editor when it was revived.

1993 - She was inducted into the National Women's Hall of Fame.

1994 – She was diagnosed with trigeminal neuralgia.

2000 - She married David Bale, father of actor Christian Bale.

2005 - She appeared in the documentary film, I Had an Abortion, by Jennifer Baumgardner and Gillian Aldrich.
 

• "She has become the Julia Child of sex."
• "I'd like to be played as a child by Natalie Wood. I'd have some romantic scenes as Audrey Hepburn and have gritty black-and-white scenes as Patricia Neal."
• "America is an enormous frosted cupcake in the middle of millions of starving people."
• "The surest way to be alone is to get married."
• "Evil is obvious only in retrospect."