The Women Who Were First by Grit and Grace
“What does it take to be the first female anything? It takes grit and it takes grace,” Meryl Streep says. We agree.
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"I distinctly remember feeling envy mixed with frustration and fierce anger when I realized that boys had advantages available to them in the universe outside of 875 W.180th Street, Apartment 1B that were not accessible to me.”
Can you imagine what would happen if a woman as heavy as Chris Christie ran for President? Press coverage about her size would be nonstop. Her eating and exercise habits would be critiqued. The media would scream every time she was photographed with a donut in her hand.
The key players who brought about the sharp shift in policy were women. For a veteran of the feminist battles of the 1960s and ’70s, that disclosure was stunning.