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I think it is really important that women constantly examine their assumptions, particularly in trying to build a New Feminism. We need to know if the assumptions we started out with are still valid, if, in fact, they were valid at the time, and whether they are still relevant. The assumption I would like to start with is the assumption that if women gain more and more power and …

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When I was in high school, in the torrid 1960′s, it was Germaine Greer and Gloria Steinem. Gloria’s followers tended to become active in political organizations while Germaine’s followers headed out in search of adventure. Off I went. I bummed around Europe, got married and divorced and bumped smack into the sexism of the early 70′s.
I was abused by a then fashionable “encounter group” and had a lot of …

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I like Barack.  I like Hillary too but I agreed with her decision to support Obama at the time she made it.
I really admire the way he’s going to all these town hall meetings and responding to criticism. It’s true that he has to compromise to get anything through at all but he’s working his butt off to get …

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I have always been bothered by this question. I was raised in the kind of screwed up Liberal family that talked a great political line but in reality, cared little for anything other than “how you look and how you do.”
I started out confused and Feminism made me more confused in some ways. I’ve never really been much of a career woman. I believe in Voluntary Simplicity and I don’t make much money. I …