
Share Born on March 25, 1934, Gloria Steinem has spent a lifetime unlearning dangerous lies stemming from prejudice against women and helping others to do so. Her grandmother, Pauline Perlmutter Steinem, was a well-known women's rights activist and a leader in the movement for vocational education; she left a lasting impression on Gloria as a self-assured, intelligent woman intent on civic activism. Gloria's mother Ruth gave up a career in journalism to raise a family and — partly as a result of that sacrifice — suffered from incapacitating dep...