Should old acquaintance be forgot, and never brought to mind? This year the precious lives of Molly Ivins, Tillie Olsen, Grace Paley and Judith Pomarlen Vladeck ended. Likewise, those of many other strong women who struggled in diverse ways in behalf of the status of women and girls. And within the present decade we have lost Shirley Chisholm, Amanda Cross, Andrea Dworkin, Margaret Ekpo, Betty Friedan, Martha Wright Griffiths, Carolyn Gold Heilbrun, Dorothy Coade Hewett, Patsy Takemoto Mink, Susan Moller Okin, Estelle Ramey, Ann Richards, Margaret Sloan-Hunter, Susan Sontag, Dorothy Stratton, Wendy Wasserstein, and Monique Wittig—to name just a few.
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