Personal Life
She studied journalism at the University of Pennsylvania and began working for the Washington Star in Washington, D.C. While serving on a local hotline helping battered women and pregnant teens in the mid 1970s, she became interested in feminism.
Walker describes herself as an atheist. The American Humanist Association named her "Humanist Heroine" in 1993, and in 1995 she received the "Women Making Herstory" award from the New Jersey NOW.
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