In 1972, she ran as a delegate for Shirley Chisholm in New York, but dropped. In 1972, she co-established the feminist-themed magazine Ms. together with founding editors Letty Cottin Pogrebin, Mary Thom, Patricia Carbine, Joanne Edgar, Nina Finkelstein, Dorothy Pitman Hughes, and Mary Peacock it began as a exclusive edition of New York, and Clay Felker funded the initially difficulty.