While feminist icon and famed women's rights activist Gloria Steinem is still very much alive, Rosie O'Donnell has already named her successor: Girls creator Lena Dunham.

O'Donnell gushed about the 28-year-old actress and writer in a SiriusXM satellite radio "Town Hall" interview, posted on YouTube on Friday.

"It's really hard for me, as a 53-year-old who was raised with the feminist movement and with Our Bodies, Ourselves, to see that there is no Gloria in the wings," she said. "Until God gave us Lena Dunham."

"And I really feel as though, you know, she is the embodiment of...like, she's like the child of Gloria Steinem, right, or the grandchild even," the comedienne and former co-host of The View continued. "And I look at her and it makes me tear up to see her advocacy for women's rights and women's issues and representing women on television in a realistic, contemporary way."