"We Did Try 'Sisters' Out on People, and They Thought It Was about Nuns"

"For radical feminists like me, Ellen Willis, and Jill Johnston, we had a different kind of magazine in mind. We came out against marriage and motherhood. Gloria was uptown; we were downtown. She hung out with Establishment figures; we had only ourselves. It very quickly became obvious at that first meeting that they wanted a glossy that would appeal to the women who read the Ladies’ Home Journal. We didn’t want that, so they walked away with it."

In New York, Abigail Pogrebin presents an oral history of Ms. magazine.