Gloria Steinem: 'If Trump spoke well of me, I would shoot myself'

Gloria Steinem tells David Marchese why she’s nowhere done with being an activist

Activist Gloria Steinem. Picture: Ilya S. Savenok/Getty Images

In just the past two years, Gloria Steinem has had her life dramatised three times. First onstage in New York in Gloria: A Life; then on television in FX’s much-discussed Mrs. America; and finally in the director Julie Taymor’s upcoming decades-spanning film, The Glorias, in which America’s best-known feminist activist is portrayed by, among others, Alicia Vikander and Julianne Moore.

And while her own story may have reached depiction-in-prestige-entertainment phase, Steinem, who is 86, is fully aware that both her work and the country’s work remain unfinished.