Feminist icon Gloria Steinem was treated for breast cancer in 1986. In a 1988 NBC special, Destined to Live: 100 Roads to Recovery, Steinem shared the story of her fight to get the care that she wanted. When her New York surgeon did not want to do the lumpectomy that she requested and that her radiologist recommended, Steinem walked out of his clinic and went to Boston for her surgery. It should surprise no one that this lifelong activist would fight for her own rights as a patient!
Co-founder of New York Magazine and Ms Magazine, Steinem has publicly advocated for the equal rights and reproductive rights of women since the 60s. More recently, she has become critical of modern feminist academic theory claiming that much of it is written in a language that is inaccessible to non-academics.
At the age of 66, Steinem married David Bale, father of actor Christian Bale. After three years of marriage, Bale died of a brain lymphoma at the age of 62. Now in her 70's Steinem continues to write and is a vocal supporter of Democratic political candidates.
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