On September 26, 2004 Vogel married her long-time partner, Anne Fausto-Sterling, in Truro, Massachusetts. Fausto-Sterling, the author of Sexing the Body: Gender Politics and the Construction of Sexuality (2000), is a Professor of biology and gender studies at Brown.

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In an interview a month after the wedding Vogel stated, "What is surprising is the emotion of it being legal--to realize that marriage is not just a personal commitment. It's a commitment from a larger community to embrace a couple."

With characteristic humor, she said that she would miss having Fausto-Sterling's mother refer to herself as her "mother-in-love or mother-out-law," but, on a more serious note, she added that Fausto-Sterling "is a very remarkable person, and I have been happy every day of my life living with her."

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