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**Melis** · 04-06-2015, 08:12 AM

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RCM: In 1980 you and Nancy get on the cover of Ms. Magazine. Was that sort of a game changer?

AW: One of the best breaks we got was when Gloria Steinem had us on the cover of Ms. At that time nobody knew what to think about that because the idea of feminism was so new; nobody knew if it was negative or not. They just didn’t understand that it was just a bid for women being 50/50. People thought it was women trying to come in and take over the world.

But that was really something that helped dimensionalize our image in the ’80s. That was a really formative time for women, and for those of us out there sluggin’ away. We just had to take our chances and just be who we were, taking the shots and taking the punches too.