Word: feminist
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Concludes Feminist Mannes: "We are neither accessories, instruments, nor objects, although in the wide range from housekeeper to whore we have for a very long time been used as such...
...white robe given her two weeks before with an honorary degree at Texas, turned up at Harvard Memorial Church to give the baccalaureate address to 252 graduates of Radcliffe. She urged the girls to remain feminine. An educated woman, she said, "does not want to be a long-striding feminist in low heels, engaged in a conscious war with men." Nor should she hold "glamorous images of herself as ambassadress or dreams of glory as she takes over the presidency of General Motors." Instead, advised Mrs. Johnson, a woman should be "preeminently a woman, a wife, a mother, a thinking...
...said in one of her rare fits of humility. "I am the kind of woman I would run from." In 84 years of almost constant exercise, Nancy Aster's acerbic tongue and quixotic heart led many to agree with her self-estimate. As Britain's leading feminist, best-known hostess, and fulltime gadfly, she herself was criticized, denounced and derided during much of her life, but all her foes in chorus could not have insulted so many people of high and low station so joyously as Lady Astor...
...Kennedy. Although on a smaller scale than the late President, Sorensen was also brought up on politics. His father, Christian Abraham Sorensen, rose from the Nebraska prairie sod house in which he was born to become state attorney general. His mother, Annis Chaikin Sorensen, was a convinced pacifist and feminist from a Russian-Jewish family...
...Strindberg's youth: the duality of his evaluation of women, which led him alternatively from violent, Nietszchean disgust of females to a submissive craving for maternal warmth and comfort, receives a bit of the attention it will enjoy more fully in later plays. The Strindberg hatred for the feminist opportunist pervades The Link, but an appreciation of the woman as mother is not totally absent...