Word: congresswomen
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Dates: during 1992-1992
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...losers, plus all the women who felt they were too poor, too inexperienced or too young to run this time: nowhere is it written that 1994 need be the 218th Year of the Man. Everything that the new female Senators and Congresswomen manage to accomplish will add to the credibility of the next surge of female candidates. And everything they don't get done will only add to the anger, and hence to the feminist resources, available to fuel the fire next time...
...label that a lot of women, especially young ones, reject even as they acknowledge how much the movement increased the opportunities available to them. Younger women "think of feminists as women who burn bras and don't shave their legs," says Pat Schroeder, dean of Capitol Hill's 29 Congresswomen. "They think of us as the Amazons of the '60s. The facts have no relation to it, but it's become conventional wisdom...
...finest tradition of 19th century fiction, is saved from a life of litigation when she drops out of law school perilously close to the bar exam. Honor almost stained is surefire, and in successive Grisham melodramas, we may expect heroines rescued at the last moment from careers as Congresswomen, TV weather babblers and Tobacco Institute scientists...