If the Fetus is Female
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Could it be that the GOP only cares about protecting females inside the womb, but not out?
When Bullying Backfires
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In the past, women have been muzzled by heavy sanctions against forthright, aggressive, open and honest speech. No more.
We Must March Against Kakocracy
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Although America’s citizens have spoken with our votes, in the conservative coup, this is not enough.
Weekly Column: WRighteous
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I no longer needed to prove to myself or to anyone that I was the ever loyal daughter to a woman who was not an ever loyal mother.
In Deference to Men: Growing up in the 1950s
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Demure, nonthreatening, and deferential: That’s what I learned to be as a young girl. Boys, it seemed to me, required a great deal of ego-building.
Weekly Column: WRighteous
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This is the year where hand baskets go out of fashion, because we are not going to hell, we are going to raise hell.
Weekly Column: WRighteous
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How do you describe a human who was filled with all of life – every bit of it – the good, the bad, the ugly, the horrific, the broken, the awful – the beauty – and managed to sweep in and make you feel as if you were the most important person in her world for a minute or two or three…
WRighteous: In Honor of Nancy Pelosi
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And sometimes it takes one seventy-eight year old feisty tough broad to prove that yes, Goddess yes, a woman’s place is mostly definitely in the House.
Self-Worth vs. Net Worth: An Interview with Gloria Steinem
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“Money has been used to rank us. It could be used to link us. You and I can decide.”
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Weekly Column: WRighteous = #TragicChoices
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But here, back in 2008, my mother was telling me that she didn’t want me. And the pieces fit; all the cracked and messy and edgy frayed pieces fit.