Biography

At age 28 in 1963, she worked as a Playboy Bunny in the New York club, as part of a famous undercover investigative report for the magazine "Show", on work conditions for women working in that role. She worked in that position for 11 days under the pseudonym Marie Catherine Ochs.

Is honorary chairperson of Democratic Socialists of America.

As an admirer of the comic book superhero Wonder Woman, she is credited as a leading voice in the protests in the late 1960s and 1970s when the character was stripped of her powers and became an ordinary woman in her series that seemed to delve into female stereotypes just as the Women's Lib movement was gaining strength. It included putting the character on the cover of the third issue of her influential feminist magazine "Ms.". As such, Wonder Woman had her powers restored as a full superhero in the comic book and has been considered a major symbol of female empowerment ever since.

Became the stepmother of Christian Bale, Sharon Bale, Erin Bale and Louise Bale, when she married their father, David Bale, in September 2000.

Columnist for New York magazine and founder of Ms. magazine, a feminist publication.

The truth will set you free...but first it will piss you off.

A woman needs a man like a fish needs a bicycle

We badly need to raise our boys more like our girls.

Without leaps of imagination, or dreaming, we lose the excitement of possibilities. Dreamin, after all, is a form of planning.

A woman reading Playboy is like a Jew reading Hitler's Mein Kampf.