1. Steinem has always been a strong proponent of women's rights.

2. Steinem commented "Our constitution does not begin with 'I, the President.'

3. Steinem became the poster girl for feminism in the 1970s because she was good-looking, smart, articulate and blatantly heterosexual.

4. America is an acclaimed new nine-episode series on Hulu and FX that tracks how Archconservative Phyllis Schlafly led a grassroots movement to defeat the Equal Rights Amendment (ERA) championed by 1970s second-wave feminists such as Gloria Steinem, Shirley Chisholm, Betty Friedan, and Bella Abzug