Gloria Steinem, the author and activist who spent more than half a century as the most recognizable voice of American feminism, died Wednesday at her New York City home at the age of 92. Her passing drew an outpouring of remembrance from political leaders, artists, and public figures whose own lives had been shaped by her belief that change was not only necessary but possible. She leaves behind not a monument to a single moment, but a living current running through generations of women who found in her both permission and example.