by Alice Combs | Mar 3, 2021 | Alice Combs
March is Women’s History month, which this year includes my seventy-ninth birthday. Until my teens, before I understood evolution, I actually believed that Eve was made from Adam’s rib. Until my thirties, I bought into the nonsense that a woman’s role was to be...
by Alice Combs | Feb 20, 2021 | Alice Combs
Helen Gurley Brown, 1922–2012, Part II By 1996, thirty-three years after Helen Gurley Brown became the dynamic US editor of Cosmopolitan magazine, its circulation began to decline, supposedly because Helen had lost touch with her readers. It was alleged that...
by Alice Combs | Feb 3, 2021 | Alice Combs
Helen Gurley Brown 1922–2012 Part I of II Valentine’s Day is right around the corner. Some couplings are momentary, and some last a lifetime. One of my favorite “till death did us part” couples is most famous not for the husband but for the wife: Helen Gurley Brown....
by Alice Combs | Jan 13, 2021 | Alice Combs
Ayaan Hirsi Ali 11/13/1969–Present (Continued) After the 2015 Paris attacks, Hirsi Ali stated that American and European governments needed to understand that Islamic fundamentalism was an ongoing threat to Westernized society. She spoke against the radicals who hide...
by Alice Combs | Jan 5, 2021 | Alice Combs
Ayaan Hirsi Ali 11/13/1969–Present Part 1 of 2 The majority of American women are now sexually emancipated, but that isn’t true of women in many African countries. There is a strict patriarchal Islamist edict under which ten of the fifty-four African countries...
by Alice Combs | Dec 16, 2020 | Alice Combs
“Dr. Ruth” (Ruth Westheimer) 6/4/1928–Present Ruth was without a man only for brief intervals. Before her 1955 divorce from David was final, she fell in love with Dan and persuaded him to sail to the U.S. with her. The day after they landed, Ruth applied for a...
by Alice Combs | Dec 2, 2020 | Alice Combs
“Dr. Ruth” (Ruth Westheimer) 6/4/1928–Present Dr. Ruth, an only child born half a century after Margaret Sanger, was always more outspoken about sex than Margaret ever was. Sanger wasn’t publicly explicit about birth control, yet she considered promotion of its usage...
by Alice Combs | Nov 18, 2020 | Alice Combs
Margaret Sanger Part 2 In 1904, Margaret Sanger’s quest for public education about—and the availability of— contraception began due to her sister’s unwanted pregnancy. Margaret’s sister left the newborn in a snowbank, and Margaret rescued her. Also, when Sanger...
by Alice Combs | Nov 4, 2020 | Alice Combs
Margaret Sanger September 14, 1879–September 6, 1966 The Famous and Infamous Birth Control Activist Without birth control, only a small fraction of accomplished women born after the 1930s would have become notable. In 1962, shortly before my twentieth birthday, I...
by Alice Combs | Oct 21, 2020 | Alice Combs
March 15, 1933–September 18, 2020 “In the ’50s, too many women, even though they were very smart, lived to make the man feel that he was brainier. It was a sad thing.” Spoken by Ruth Bader Ginsburg, I lived those words along with many other girls and young...
