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“Heck, I didn’t even consider
myself a feminist,” she told
Cusumano. “And it wasn’t because
I’m not a feminist — I
just didn’t really know what it
meant.” (Now, she’s very much
a feminist, and very much an
activist: “I think I’ve at least
earned that title out of this,”
she said.)
“It’s given a lot of the people
involved in it a new outlook on
what female leadership is supposed
to look like,” said ShiShi
Rose, a writer and activist who
operates social media — especially
Instagram — for the
Women’s March.
Tamika Mallory who is an experienced
gun-control advocate
and civil rights activist who
previously helmed the Rev. Al
Sharpton’s National Action
Network said, “What we have
been doing is ensuring that
thevoices of women across this country,
women of color, that their voices are heard
and that we are the mouthpiece to be able
to speak on their behalf, and to ensure
that this movement looks like what it
means to be a woman in this country.”
According to Bonnie Eisenberg and Mary
Ruthsdotter in the “National Women’s History
Project, 1998, ”Women and girls today
are living the legacy of women’s rights that
seven generations of women before us
have given their best to achieve.” Alice
Paul, that intrepid organizer who first wrote
out the Equal Rights Amendment in 1923,
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said, “I always feel the movement is sort of a
mosaic. Each of us puts in one little stone,
and then you get a great mosaic at the end.”
Women working together and adding their
small stones to the grand mosaic, have increased
their rights against all odds, nonviolently,
from an initial position of powerlessness.
We have much to be proud of in this
heroic legacy, and a great deal to celebrate
on the occasion of the 150th Anniversary of
the founding of the Women’s Rights Movement.
Sabrina Schaeffer, executive director of the
conservative Independent Women's Forum
(Kellyanne Conway has a seat on
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