A Real Tough Cookie
And let’s face it, her rounded “R”s only make her more unique. But if you ask Walters, she’ll tell you she doesn’t see herself as anything special. “Do I see myself as a feminist idol? No. I don’t see myself as anything. I do not see myself as a trailblazer. I don’t think about that,” she told Vanity Fair. “I get up, and I do my day, and I do my work.”
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But she doesn’t, by any means, sit around and think about herself and her legacy. That’s just what we do, and by “we,” I mean those who admire her body of work. Just ask her colleague Katie Couric, who said Walters was a real tough cookie.