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Graduated from Smith College in Northampton, Massachusetts. Other Smith graduates include former First Lady Nancy Reagan (Nancy Davis, poet Sylvia Plath, U.S. Representative Tammy Baldwin, and writer Madeleine L'Engle, author of "A Wrinkle In Time". Founded Ms. Magazine, a feminist publication. [1956]

Born at 10:00pm-EST

Made People Magazine's 50 Most Beautiful People list. [1990s]

She became the stepmother of actor Christian Bale and Louise Bale, when she married their father, David Bale, in September 2000.

Was a Playboy bunny as part of a famous undercover investigative report on work conditions for the women working in that role.

Inducted into the National Women's Hall of Fame in 1993.

Measurements: 34B/C-23-35 (Source: Celebrity Sleuth magazine)

When the movie The People vs. Larry Flynt (1996) was released, Steinem, along with other feminist activists, held a press conference to protest the film for not covering sex-abuse allegations made by one of Flynt's daughters. In her press conference, she compared pornography's effect on women to the Holocaust's effect on Jews during WWII, and stated that making a film that was sympathetic to a man like Larry Flynt was comparable to making a film that was sympathetic to Adolf Hitler.

Told ABC's John Stossel in 1995 that women make better firefighters because of their lack of upper body strength, reasoning that dragging victims out of burning buildings keeps them away from the smoke.

Though she was a staunch supporter of Anita Hill and fierce opponent of Clarence Thomas, believing that Thomas had committed acts of sexual harassment against Ms. Hill, she gave her full support to President Bill Clinton when numerous women came forward to accuse him of sexually assaulting them. Most of her critics believed this was the case because Thomas is a conservative Republican, while Clinton is a Democrat. Steinem herself is a lifelong supporter of the Democratic Party.

Is honorary chairperson of Democratic Socialists of America.

Personal Quotes

The truth will set you free...but first it will piss you off.

A woman needs a man like a fish needs a bicycle

We badly need to raise our boys more like our girls.

"Without leaps of imagination, or dreaming, we lose the excitement of possibilities. Dreamin, after all, is a form of planning.

A woman reading Playboy is like a Jew reading Hitler's Mein Kampf.

Men should think twice before making widowhood woman's only path to power.

On self-respect: Self-esteem isn't everything; it's just that there's nothing without it.

On sexual politics: The Golden Rule works for men as written, but for women it should go the other way around. We need to do unto ourselves as we do unto others.

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