"It [the domestic partnership] was a symbol of who were to each other, no question...but it wasn't the same as the morning after we got married and woke up. There's a profundity that probably goes with the word altogether, but I think it's much more so for those of us who thought we could never have it."
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On how marriage changed her relationship to Thea Spyer in “Edith Windsor on Love, DOMA and Life as a Civil Rights Icon” in WNYC Studios (2013 Dec 25)
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Edith Windsor
Edith "Edie" Windsor (June 20, 1929 – September 12, 2017) was an American LGBT rights activist and a technology manager at IBM.
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