Sic transit Gloria

 Gloria Steinem, the “personification of the women’s movement” and founder of Ms. Magazine, died yesterday at her home in Manhattan. She was 92.

In The New York Times obituary, Katharine Q. Seelye writes that Steinem “helped usher in sweeping cultural transformations across virtually every facet of American life, from the boardroom to the courtroom to the bedroom.”

And with the launch of Ms. Magazine in 1971, the first glossy to be created, owned and run entirely by women, “she and a cadre of feminists had the audacity to start a publication that flew in the face of traditional women’s magazines, examining topics like abortion, domestic violence and equal pay for equal work.”

“One of the most difficult jobs as a reporter must be to put the amazing life of Gloria Steinem into context for an obit,” says Charlie Gasparino of Fox Business. “Great job here. RIP.” As E.B. Moss says, “A remarkable bio about a remarkable person.”

Jennifer Gerson paid tribute at The 19th News, describing Steinem as “a tireless champion for furthering the work of the feminist movement and promoting gender equity, even when it has meant reevaluating some of her own past positions.”

Karla Strand shares, “I only met Gloria Steinem once and when I told her how excited I was to write for @msmagazine.com, she deadpanned, ‘Oh, they don’t let me near the magazine anymore.’ 😂 She was strong, strategic, and imperfect, and I’m grateful to have had her as one of my feminist role models throughout my life.”

CNN’s Christiane Amanpour says, “Gloria Steinem will go down in history as one of the most important activists of all time, leading a movement for the equality of half the world: its women. She lived a long and passionate life dedicated to this vital and basic cause. She did it with intellectual precision, emotional awareness, humour and beauty. May she rest in peace and may the cause thrive.