The co-founder of Ms. Magazine was a leader in raising awareness about gender equality and violence against women, and for promoting inclusion, representation and social justice affecting women and girls.

Gloria Steinem,' recorded the year before her death, the feminist icon opened up about her feelings about her eventual demise.

Former first lady Jill Biden, writers and social justice activists are lauding Gloria Steinem as a revolutionary and inspiring figure.

In the 1970s, Ms. Steinem confronted the newspaper’s executive editor about the honorific in an exchange of letters, pressing it to use the alternative to Miss or Mrs.

Former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton remembered activist Gloria Steinem as "one of the architects of the entire structure of women's equality," while encouraging young women to lift up each other.

The statement announcing the activist's death remembered Steinem for her greatest gift of people feel "seen and heard."

Feminism has evolved – in part because of Steinem's contributions to women's liberation – but her teachings still resonate in this divisive political landscape.