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Women’s History Part 1 of 2
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...
Helen Gurley Brown, Part II
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...
Helen Gurley Brown
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....
Ayaan Hirsi Ali
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...
Ayaan Hirsi Ali
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...
“Dr. Ruth” (Ruth Westheimer)
“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...
“Dr. Ruth” (Ruth Westheimer)
“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...
Margaret Sanger, Part 2
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...
Margaret Sanger
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...
Ruth Bader Ginsburg
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...
