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Economic Equity Is An Enormous Empowerment Of Women. Having Jobs That Provide Income Means That Women Can Be A More Effective Force, A More Equal Force, In The Political Process. Women With Income Take Themselves More Seriously And They Are Taken More Seriously.

The Problem That Has No Name-which Is Simply The Fact That American Women Are Kept From Growing To Their Full Human Capacities-is Taking A Far Greater Toll On The Physical And Mental Health Of Our Country Than Any Known Disease.

Life Lived Only For Oneself Does Not Truly Satisfy Men Or Women. There Is A Hunger In Americans Today For Larger Purposes Beyond The Self. That Is The Reason For The Religious Revival And The New Resonance Of 'family.

This Idea That The Employment Of Women, The Movement Of Women Outside The Home Into The Work World, And Their Demand For Equality Is Somehow Responsible For Increasing Juvenile Delinquency Or The Increase In Divorce Rate, Is Just So Much Bullshit.

I Was At A Meeting Two Years Ago In Beijing, And I Passed A Bunch Of Women Who Were Marching In A Protest. Their Signs Were Probably Saying Something I Wouldn't Have Agreed With At All. But I Was So Glad To See Women Marching. And It's Happening All Over The World.