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...Betty Friedan, feminist author, after the women's platform victory at the Democratic Convention: "We took on the Establishment, and we made them say 'aunt...
...dozen cheerleaders stamped their white boots and chanted: "Ratify the ERA, we shall not be moved!" Familiar feminist leaders-Bella Abzug, Betty Friedan and Gloria Steinem noteworthy among them-led some 50,000 men, women and children, most wearing white, to symbolize their spiritual ties with the suffragists,* down Chicago's Columbus Drive and into Grant Park. There the crowd cheered heartily as Mayor Jane Byrne declared, "It's time that we women of Illinois were looking at the legislature and saying...
...week's American Psychiatric Association convention in San Francisco. At first, however, it looked as though there might be very little of either. In demonstrations and caucuses, angry feminists denounced the association as male-dominated and hopelessly sexist. Gloria Steinem was there to push the cause, and Betty Friedan sent a message saying that she dreamed of the day when women would not need psychiatrists...
...rest on the assumption that equality is here to stay," Friedan said. "I don't want to see a generation of lonely, tired, bitter women in the next few years in backlash against what I have worked so hard for," she added...
...Friedan's speech opened a conference this weekend on dual career families sponsored by the Cronkhite Center...