Stilwell, Oklahoma - Gloria Steinem, the feminist icon who once dismissed marriage as an institution that destroyed relationships, has become a first-time bride at the age of 66.
Steinem, the co-founder of Ms magazine, married South African-born entrepreneur David Bale, 61, in
rural Oklahoma on Sunday.
"Though I've worked many years to make marriage more equal, I never expected to take advantage of it
myself," Steinem said in a release issued on Tuesday by Voters for Choice, a political action committee she helped create.
For years, Steinem said the chances of her ever marrying were slim. In 1987, she said: "I don't think
marriage has a good name. ... legally speaking, it was designed for a person and a half. You became a semi-non-person when you got married."
Steinem and Bale, the father of Shaft and American Psycho actor Christian Bale, met in October 1999 at a Voters for Choice benefit in Los Angeles. - Sapa-AP