The Backlash! - January 1997

Feminism Unclothed

Where we turn the soapbox over to the feminists, themselves.
Men are the world and women use intelligence to survive men: their tricks, desires, demands, moods, hatreds, disappointments, rages, greed, lust, authority, power, weakness.
- Andrea Dworkin, Right-Wing Women

We are in the empowered state. The empowerment of women was obvious in the 96 election: women elected the president of the United States, there is no question about it.

- Betty Friedan, Women and Affirmative Action, American Enterprise Institute, December 1996

One of NOW's most important strategies was to prevent the mass arrests of Operation Rescue demonstrators during blockades if access to the clinic could be kept open...mass arrests helped them cultivate their desired public image of being willing "martyrs" for the "unborn."

- Patricia Ireland, What Women Want

Work against Parental Rights legislation or constitutional amendments is needed at the state level, wherever they may be introduced next year.

- now-action-list Legislative Update, November 1996

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