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My life as love story, during the women’s movement, it was when I first as an adult, a young woman, but as an adult, began to experience the love story aspect of what I was doing so dramatically. I mean, it came out during Vietnam days. It certainly came out in the Civil Tights Movement. But the power that people who can recognize their own strength and recognize it in others and come together to do something to free it, that power that was unleashed in the women’s movement of the late sixties, early seventies, continues to be a part of me and I think it continues to be a part of anyone who experienced it. It’s one of the reasons why the fight against Roe that’s been unleashed right now, is like we had a we had a slight—we had a saying and I don’t know who came up with this–  but during the Vietnam days, it came to life in the women’s movement, “when you have touched a woman, you have touched a rock.”

There were groups of women against the war in Vietnam that put that into action. That rock was touched and turned into a blossom in the early days of the women’s movement. And that blossom has never died. It’s been stomped on. It’s been, it’s been called dirty names. It’s been tried to be stomped out. But once it’s there, it’s there.