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History of Feminism

Warpy

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7. The tour guide should have stood there in shame

Reply to PassingFair (Reply #6)

Sat Mar 14, 2015, 12:37 PM

Mar 2015

but I don't suppose she was educated enough to be capable of it.

A lot of these younger types have no clue what a nightmare it was for women who had pregnancy forced on them year after year with no way to feed or care for the children they produced, exhausted and dead of old age in their 30s. That was what the condom, diaphragm with spermicide, pill and IUD saved us from. The washing machine just saved a little time.

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Seven women who changed the world [View all] shenmue Mar 2015 OP

K&R! marym625 Mar 2015 #1

I would argue that Margaret Sanger belongs there Warpy Mar 2015 #2

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I took one of my daughters and a friend of hers to an "American Girl"... PassingFair Mar 2015 #6

The tour guide should have stood there in shame Warpy Mar 2015 #7

Glad to see these 7 women honored mountain grammy Mar 2015 #3

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