Edith Windsor

thumb|Edith Windsor in 2017 Edith "Edie" Windsor (June 20, 1929 – September 12, 2017) was an American LGBT rights activist and a technology manager at IBM. Quotes 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. 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) We told ourselves that it didn’t matter if there was no word to cement our reality…We were the ones that made it real. And yet, the sense of otherness loomed. On wanting to legitimize her relationship (as quoted in “Gay rights icon Edie Windsor’s sheer force carries ‘A Wild and Precious Life’”) (Tampa Bay; 2019 Oct 8) I could not imagine a life that way…I wanted to be like everybody else. You marry a man who supports you – it never occurred to me I'd have to earn a living, and nor did I study to earn a living. On coming to the realization that she was a lesbian (as quoted in “Edith Windsor and Thea Spyer: 'A love affair that just kept on and on and on'”) (The Guardian; 2013 Jun 26) I really believe in the supreme court. First of all, I'm the youngest in my family and justice matters a lot – the littlest one gets pushed around a lot. And I trust the supreme court, I trust the constitution – so I feel a certain confidence that we'll win. On her confidence in the U.S. Supreme Court in “Edith Windsor and Thea Spyer: 'A love affair that just kept on and on and on'”) (The Guardian; 2013 Jun 26) External links Category: Political activists Category:Computer scientists from the United States Category: LGBT people Category: 1929 births Category: 2017 deaths Category:LGBT rights activists Category:Jews from the United States Category:People from Philadelphia Category:Women activists from the United States