US women’s rights activist Gloria Steinem dies at 92

American author and activist Gloria Steinem, a fierce advocate of the

US' women's movement, dies at age 92.

The co-founder of Ms. Magazine, she pivoted from a career in journalism to

activism after attending an abortion rights hearing.

The issue would become one of her many defining causes.

Steinem would go on to co-found the National Women's Political Caucus in 1971,

touring the country on speaking engagements and at political rallies.

She had said when reflecting on the reversal of Roe v Wade that living in a

democracy means all genders have a right to decide what to do with their own bodies.

Steinem never had children, and said "it's important that some of us

not have children, to show that we have a choice."

Perhaps her generation's most visible symbols and potent voices

of women's rights, Steinem has this to say about it means

to be a feminist: "It shouldn't need a name, and one day it won't."