What is the most important moment in U.S. history for the advancement of women?
I was actually born about three years after the 19th Amendment was passed, giving women the right to vote. That was pretty darned important. But even that didn’t change everything overnight. We are still trying to get out from behind the eight ball when it comes to pay and other important issues. I think the biggest setback happened when the “bra burning” myth came into existence. I lived through the schism when Women’s Liberation fought its way through its own split between straight women and lesbians. That was not our finest hour. But actually, I leave all this kind of certainty to my braver “sisters” and Gloria Steinem. I stepped daintily into Gloria’s footprints and followed. I never led in this fight; I didn’t realize how to do so. I was selfishly having my own kind of success and I didn’t realize at the time how important everything happening around me really was.
