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...women from the stereotypes and narrow possibilities that have bound their lives is one of the great movements of this century or of any other, an expansion of the concept of our human dignity and of our worth. One-half of the human race is waking to claim its birthright. The full participation of women in our national life-in our courts, capitols, boardrooms, precinct houses, theaters and universities-will flood this country with new energy and imagination and genius...
...being able to manage both. In 1982 more women?including some of the daughters of the past generation?take all this as a birthright...
Realistically, now, it will have to stand as a birthright deferred. Feminists of both genders attached a strong symbolic importance to the passing of the ERA and find in its final and formal defeat last week intimations of national malaise (see following story). "It is an appalling obscenity not to pass the ERA, when everyone knows women have to work and society wants them to work," says Novelist-Critic Elizabeth Hardwick. "There is an illiberal and I think tyrannical minority imposing its will on obvious needs for social change," remarks Novelist John Irving, who wrestled questions of feminism and family...
...that point, U.S. patience began to wear thin. In Congress, Republican Senator Mark Hatfield called on the Administration to suspend military aid to Israel. Said he: "I am very much afraid that Israel's leaders of today have taken violence as their birthright." In the House of Representatives, eight members introduced a resolution demanding an investigation into a possible Israeli violation of American laws prohibiting foreign countries from using arms purchased from the U.S. for offensive purposes. In Bonn, Haig announced early Thursday evening that he would not accept Begin's invitation to go to Jerusalem, because...
MARRIED. Zsa Zsa Gabor, over 60 (though she claims 54), gilded, Hungarian-born actress with less talent than she has wealthy former husbands; and Felipe de Alba, 52, Mexican lawyer who no longer uses his Spanish birthright title of Count of Pardela; she for the eighth time, he for the second; on a yacht off Puerto Vallarta...