What was your first "feminist moment"?

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61. Thanks much

I hope YOU dumped the guy who planned to flush you if you got pregnant because HE wouldn't practice birth control. (And wasn't it telling that he didn't feel you'd be upset by the news?)

My favorite protest sign recently was held by a mature, professional-looking woman. It said "I can't believe I'm still protesting this stuff." Amen, sing it, sister!

My aunt truly was an inspiration to me, in many ways. (Mother also had a master's degree, but she was trying so hard to be normal--quite a challenge when the only medication for her bipolar condition in those days was alcolhol, which she took religiously.) When I was designing my house, I looked to the house my aunt built after hers was destroyed by fire--her life sure was Tragedies R Us. Even as a little girl, I thought it was really marvelously layed out, convenient for working and living. I wanted some of the same features. I told her this a few years before she died and asked where she'd found such an intuitive designer. She said she designed it herself and had a small side business designing kitchens and homes for people. Well, of course she could, Mrs.-Almost-A-PhD-In-Home-Economics! I'd like to think that the admiration of us younger women made up somewhat for the scorn of all the men around her.