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...donated money to women's groups and generally vented their outrage. "We will no longer beg for our rights from men in power. We will replace them and take power ourselves," Patricia Ireland, executive vice president of the National Organization for Women, told the Washington Post. Said Eleanor Smeal, president of the Fund for the Feminist Majority: "The Senate did more in one week to underscore the critical need for more women in the Senate than feminists have been able to do in 25 years...
Just as she was dejectedly weighing her waning options, Feinstein met privately with the president of the Fund for the Feminist Majority, Eleanor Smeal, and three prominent members of the organization's Los Angeles leadership. The four took Feinstein to dinner in West Hollywood, and through an evening of intense, plainspoken woman talk, they strove to shore up her resolve...
They stressed the higher purpose of her "historical" candidacy: the political advancement of women all over the country. The attacks against her were sexist, they said. The four implored her not to abandon hope, for she would bounce back; they were sure she would . . . Besides, Ellie Smeal recounted sympathetically, she too had undergone a hysterectomy not long before and so she understood full well why Feinstein did not then have fire in her belly -- because it was actually "burning" for all-too-real, physical reasons. At that, Feinstein had to laugh. "We left that dinner thinking 'She's really gutsy...
Cover: Photograph by Jim Smeal -- Ron Galella...
...session, scheduled for four days, collapsed after only two, during which pro-choice legislators turned back 14 antiabortion bills -- three of them proposed by the Governor. Abortion-rights activists were jubilant. "This has gone better than we hoped," exulted Eleanor Smeal, president of the Fund for the Feminist Majority. "It should encourage state politicians everywhere who are pro-choice to take a stand...