Letters, Dec. 26, 1977

Women: "Great to Be Alive"

To the Editors:

The comment on the Women's Conference at Houston [Dec. 5] that "it is a particularly exciting time to be a woman" had a traumatic effect on me. I have been involved in the suffrage movement since 1909, first in London and then in Alaska and on to the present day. What a change there has been in the kind of militant action called for now compared to what our sisters were compelled to experience in England in the early years of this century.

It is great to...

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