[8] Byrne met her mother for the first time in ten years when she was 16, after which she began occasionally living with Ethel and her lover Rob Parker.
While staying with them she was exposed to much of Sanger's work such as Woman and the New Race, The Pivot of Civilization, and the ideas of "voluntary motherhood" and sexual freedom.
Byrne entered her freshman year at Tufts University studying medicine at her mother's bidding.
It received almost no attention from the rest of the academic community other than a review, written by Byrne herself, under her alternate name Olive Richard in The Journal of Abnormal and Social Psychology.
[17] She began working as a staff writer for Family Circle that same year writing under her Richard name.
[2] Byrne lived with William and Elizabeth Marston for a number of years, but kept the details of their intimate relationship a secret.
[21] Olive Byrne largely raised the children and Elizabeth held the most stable career until William established himself with Wonder Woman.
[20] Byrne told her children that their father was a man named William K. Richard who died shortly after they were born.
[26] Marston himself only remarked that a pair of bracelets that Byrne frequently wore inspired the ones that became an important feature of the comic book heroine.