Word: bitch
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Thanks to Barbara Ehrenreich for defending the word bitch in relation to Hillary Rodham Clinton [Essay, Jan. 23]. A woman should feel honored when the word is applied to her. It means that she has been assertive and her efforts have not gone unnoticed...
...Bitch is an insult to Hillary Clinton, who is a brilliant, attractive and feminine First Lady...
...ticket for Hillary: a firm stance and a cry of ``I am bitch; hear me roar...
...Friday night, and certainly not on David Letterman's Late Show. But why not? Richard Nixon said ``Sock it to me'' on Laugh-In in 1968, and later appraised his cameo as ``a stroke that helped people see I wasn't just that Tricky Dick, meanspirited son-of-a-bitch.'' So Dole took a page from the Nixon playbook, and for the same reason. If he feared that he's seen as stiff and sardonic, still perceived as a hatchet man by those who recall his slash-and-burn campaign tactics as Gerald Ford's 1976 vice-presidential running mate...
...response to the Connie Chung-Kathleen Gingrich incident in which Newt Gingrich's mother revealed he had called Hillary Clinton a ``bitch'' [Jan. 16], I believe bitch is a badge of honor. It means that a woman has been assertive and her efforts have not gone unnoticed...