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...those who inhabit French fiction from La Princesse de Clèves through the novels of Flaubert and beyond are almost unknown in the works of our novelists." There are memorable figures, of course: Hawthorne's Hester Prynne, John O'Hara's Grace Caldwell Tate and Gloria Wandrous, Fitzgerald's Daisy Buchanan, Dreiser's Sister Carrie, Steinbeck's Ma Joad, Margaret Mitchell's Scarlett O'Hara, Nabokov's Lolita, Roth's Sophie Portnoy...
VIEWS. In a movement that has sought to avoid leaders, some women have become, more or less willingly, the articulators of the new militant consciousness. Among them are Gloria Steinem, founder of the new feminist magazine Ms., who in speeches and meetings is one of the movement's most effective proselytizers; Susan Brownmiller, an author who has organized conferences on rape and prostitution; and Robin Morgan, a radical feminist who has spent the past six months speaking at rallies. In recent interviews with TIME'S BJ. Phillips, they discussed their current concern...
...GLORIA STEINEM: "In terms of real power-economic and political-we are still just beginning. But the consciousness, the awareness-that will never be the same. When we go to a town to speak, we usually spend three or four hours looking for the local issues: What's the name of the company in town that refuses to hire or promote women? How many women on the faculty? Who is the politician who has stood in the way of a child-care center? Since we go out on the next morning's plane, we tell the local women...
...trouble spotting Bella Abzug, beaming belligerently from under her familiar hat. Or Gloria Steinem in her granny glasses and jeans. But who was that lady in fluttering chiffon who looked as if she might have walked in from another era? None other than Lenore Romney, wife of George Romney, Secretary of Housing and Urban Development. She quickly made it clear that she was very much a part of the scene. She told the women in the audience to get hip to politics. She cracked an antisexist joke: "After God created Adam, he looked him over and said: 'I think...
...woman President would bring the millennium: her explicitly feminine qualities would gentle the militaristic impulse, introduce new compassion to such fields as health care, housing and education, and render government deeply humane. But many theoreticians of Women's Liberation think that that argument carries a sexist seed. Says Gloria Steinem: "The truth probably is that women are not more moral, they are only uncorrupted by power...