After matriculating from Vestjsk Gymnasium in Tarm, she spent a year in Brussels, returning to Denmark to study literature at the University of Copenhagen.
A talented orator, she was a strong supporter of free abortion and equal pay, causes she also developed as editor of the bimonthly journal Politisk Revy from 1966.
From 1970, thanks to contacts with Ninon Schloss, she consistently devoted a column to the Red Stocking Movement.
Over the next 15 years, she became one of the unofficial leaders of the women's movement in Denmark, participating in the gathering on the island of Femø in 1971.
Together with Vibeke Vasbo and Mette Knudsen, she drafted a number of documents which became the ideology of the Red Stockings.