"Women's consciousness is changing, and it's irrelevant to me whether 500 or 5,000 women turn out.(August 1970: THE YEAR WE WERE BORN: A LOOK BACK AT THE WORLD IN SMITHSONIAN MAGAZINE'S FIRST YEAR)(Brief Article)

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"Women's consciousness is changing, and it's irrelevant to me whether 500 or 5,000 women turn out. This is already a huge success because the women's movement is going to be the biggest movement for social and political change in the 1970s."

--BETTY FRIEDAN, ON MARCHES PLANNED FOR THE 50TH...

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