“What Could We Have Been If We Hadn’t Put All That Energy Into Being Hidden?”

Edith Windsor, the 84-year-old plaintiff who paved the way for the Supreme Court’s DOMA ruling this past summer, was on the shortlist for TIME’s annual Human We Put On The December Cover Issue (the Pope won). She talked quite a bit on tape about her 40-plus years with her spouse, Thea Spyer, who died in 2009, and it’s really nice. (She also shared a lot of old photos of the two of them. KNOCKOUTS.) [TIME]