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Lynn Sherr

AP Was There: In 1970, Gloria Steinem was a journalist, a feminist and a member of the glitterati

Photos show Gloria Steinem through decades as a leading voice of the women’s movement - (AP)

EDITOR'S NOTE: Gloria Steinem, who died Wednesday, was a freelance journalist who had not yet founded Ms. Magazine when she invited The Associated Press into her apartment for a feature on a life that found her equally comfortable at high-society dinners and in tenement halls.

The April 5, 1970, feature written by then-AP writer Lynn Sherr, headlined “Making It Like, Wow,” ran with a photograph of Steinem — and her cat — at home, which doubled as her workplace. It carried its own editor's note introducing Steinem:

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