“Steinem passed away peacefully at her home in New York City, surrounded by some of the many who loved her,” her foundation said in a statement.

Feminist activist Gloria Steinem, a trailblazer and one of the most prominent voices in the U.S. women’s movement, has died, her foundation announced in a statement posted on social media on Thursday. She was 92.

“Yesterday, Gloria Steinem passed away peacefully at her home in New York City, surrounded by some of the many who loved her. Gloria’s near-century on earth were years well-lived, and she continued working for equality until the very end,” the statement reads.

“In lieu of flowers, Gloria has asked that those wishing to honor her with a gift,” it continues, “may make a donation to Gloria’s Foundation.”

Steinem, a feminist icon, was awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom, the nation’s highest civilian honor, from then-President Barack Obama in 2013 for her work on women’s rights.

“When I got the call from the White House, I said, ‘Are you sure?’” Steinem said in an interview at the time, laughing. “What makes this medal mean so much is that it’s for waging peace, you might say.” 

Steinem, who was born in Ohio in 1934, was inspired to start her activism journey after spending two years in India on a scholarship following her graduation from Smith College in 1956.

She then went on to work as a freelance journalist and garnered national attention for her exposé, “A Bunny’s Tale,” published in Show magazine after she went undercover as a Playboy Bunny to reveal the conditions in Hugh Hefner’s New York Playboy Club.

In 1972, Steinem co-founded Ms. Magazine, an outlet championing feminist causes, including calling for the revocation of laws criminalizing abortion.

Steinem was also an author, with her memoir, “An Unexpected Life,” set to be published posthumously later this month.

Steinem was one of the co-founders of the National Women’s Political Caucus to promote female candidates running for office after Congress failed to pass the Equal Rights Amendment.

She also continued her political activism later in life. She served as honorary co-chair of the Women’s March on Washington, D.C., in January 2017, following Donald Trump’s 2016 election victory, and did not shy away from criticizing the president.

Steinem, a fierce advocate of women’s reproductive rights, also condemned the U.S. Supreme Court’s decision to overturn Roe v. Wade in 2022.

“It felt both new and angering and ancient,” she told NPR of the decision. “ I think there have always been efforts to control women’s birth giving.”

Tributes have started pouring in for Steinem.

“Steinem will go down in history as one of the most important activists of all time, leading a movement for the equality of half the world: its women,” veteran CNN journalist Christiane Amanpour wrote on social media.

Her namesake foundation has announced that a celebration of her life will be held later this year in New York City.

This article originally appeared on HuffPost.