She was the epitome of the feminism. Helen Thomas actually beats her in the looks category!
Who was she?
Rot in Peace
Her voice is very unfeminine.
Molly Yard (born July 6, 1912 in Chengdu, Sichuan province, China as Mary Alexander Yard, the daughter of Methodist missionaries) is a U.S. administrator, social activist, and feminist who served as National Organization for Women President from 1987 to 1991. Having previously served as an assistant to Eleanor Roosevelt, she connected first-wave feminism with second-wave feminism. She received the Feminist Majority Foundation's lifetime achievement award for "tireless work for women's rights, for women and girls in sports, for the Equal Rights Amendment for Women, for civil rights for all Americans, for her championing of the trade union movement, and her devotion to world peace and non-violence."
Molly Yard graduated in the 1930s from Swarthmore College, a coeducational college that was also the alma mater of Alice Paul, a pioneering feminist and suffragist who drafted the Equal Rights Amendment.
Molly Yard moved to Pittsburgh in in 1953 and worked in the gubernatorial campaign of Mayor David L. Lawrence in 1958; headed the Western Pennsylvania presidential campaigns of John F. Kennedy in 1960 and George McGovern in 1972; and was co-chairman with Mayor Joseph M. Barr of the unsuccessful U.S. Senate campaign of Jeannette Reibman in 1976.
Miss Yard made an unsuccessful run for the state Legislature as a candidate from the city's 14th Ward in 1964.
Miss Yard became active in NOW while a resident of Squirrel Hill in 1974, and she joined the national staff in 1978 during the campaign to ratify the Equal Rights Amendment, serving as a lobbyist in Washington. She raised more than $1 million in less than six months for that drive.
She passed away in her sleep at age 93 on September 21, 2005.
In related news - FReeper finds use for decomposing anarchist, starts worm ranch.
Was she with the "Yard Birds?" :-}
Not Molly Ivins?
dang
Wanna see some terrible propaganda?
I'm not too good at poetry
often trying to rhyme has got the best of me.
But I'm in love, so I'll try real hard.
I'm in love with N.O.W.'s Molly Yard.
Things didn't start so cut and dried.
This love, you know, I tried hard to deny.
I traded in my penis for a Feminist card
'cause I'm in love with Molly Yard.
She wouldn't wear a bra to save her life.
She'd die before being any man's wife.
This poem is finished; though I ain't no bard,
now you know I love Molly Yard.
http://www.holysmoke.org/fem/fem0228.htm
She was the epitome of the feminism. Helen Thomas actually beats her in the looks category!
She passed away in her sleep at age 93 on September 21, 2005.
Not for nothin' but that wikpedia is pretty darn fast.
Owl_Eagle(If what I just wrote makes you sad or angry,
That was excellent, but the real kicker was Ellie Smeal's post-testimony news conference, at which she indignantly took the Senator to task for insulting her, and "her sister" by calling them "lovely ladies."
I doubt she ever realized what she was saying.
Strange; she had two legs, but three feet.
Nam Vet
Another one bites the dust !! see 'ya
How can they tell?
Molly is NOW dead? Yard Space NOW needed.