August252010
THEN & NOW: 90 Years Ago, Women Gained the Right to Vote »
“Female voters would also pose practical difficulties, described bluntly by a Mississippi man: ‘We are not afraid to maul a black man over the head if he dares to vote, but we can’t treat women, even black women, that way. No, we’ll allow no woman suffrage.’”
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May32010
Then & Now: 50 Years After the FDA's Approval of the Birth Control Pill »
“The millions of women who, like Loretta Lynn’s narrator, have used the pill to slip the bonds of biology, turning childbearing from an obligation into an option, have utterly reshaped our ideas about sex, marriage, and family.”
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