A New Women's Movement
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"I like to think that a new women's movement is brewing--one
that's no longer about equality but about leadership."
-Faith Hunter
"Despite centuries of European convention
to the contrary, the American Founding Mothers knew the truth about
women and society, and Tocqueville commented on the contrast and the
quality of feminine strength that so marked American culture.
"Like the stories of our first matriarchs
there are a hundred others: including Rebecca, Rachel, Penelope, Joan
and both Abigails. Together they are the founders of the West. Their
descendents and heirs, Tocqueville's heroic pioneer women who carved out
homes in the wilderness, walked across the plains, and taught eight
generations of the freest people in history-often while pregnant or
nursing-were no less feminine, no less amazing.
"We must be like them. We owe a debt of
gratitude to those pioneering women and include among them others in
more recent times. We tend to gloss over the patronizing contempt (and
often vicious abuse) they endured to retrieve American culture from the
backward European norm of the era.
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