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Social media was all about Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez's "Tax the Rich" dress at the Met Gala. But the more important outfit was worn by her Congressional colleague Rep. Carolyn Maloney, who dressed as a suffragette. The suffragettes were largely against abortion. But earlier in the week, Maloney had cheered on New York Gov. Kathy Hochul as Hochul invited Texas women seeking abortions to visit New York. Hochul gave that invitation in Central Park, near a statue depicting Sojourner Truth, Susan B. Anthony and Elizabeth Cady Stanton. Stanton, a prominent suffragette, called abortion "infanticide" and wrote: "when we consider that women are...

Today's Quotefall Puzzle features a quote by Sojourner Truth. Click image (or click here) for full size rendition, then use your browser's print command to print puzzle. Sojourner Truth was an early abolitionist and women's right activist who actually held a significant amount of power in pre-Civil War America.Note: Quotes are sometimes paraphrased to make them more adaptable to fit within the Quotefall puzzle structure, particularly with regard to grammar and punctuation. However, I have left this quote verbatim for authentication purposes. All hints, along with the answer, are provided in the first reply comment below, using filtered font to prevent accidential...

Virginia Sen. Jim Webb recently wrote an op-ed for The Wall Street Journal titled "Diversity and the Myth of White Privilege" that really brought home the foolishness of pining for a "conversation on race." The headline itself was a device meant to drive conservatives to cheering, liberals to howling, and the whole of them to page-clicking and reading. Webb's piece was about affirmative action, and his argument was much more nuanced than the headline — sympathetic to the argument for historical redress for African-Americans, unsympathetic to hazy appeals to diversity, appealing for more discussion of a seemingly invisible class of...

Another pro-life feminist foremother was embraced -- perhaps "absconded" would be a better description -- by the pro-choice activists who honored her yesterday at the unveiling of a memorial in the nation's Capitol.The accounts I have read in the WashPo http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/04/28/AR2009042803936.html?sub=AR and on pro-abortion blogs praised the life of Sojourner Truth, acknowledging her activism for abolition, against the death penalty and for -- as they reported it -- the vague "women's rights."Now we all know that when those two words are mentioned in public, a pro-abortion stance is implied. The reporters and attendees of the memorial conveniently failed to mention that Sojourner Truth...

<p>March is Women's History Month, but hard-line feminists in universities and major women's groups are deciding who counts as a woman. I have been labeled a non-woman. An angry critic once referred to Margaret Thatcher and me as "those two female impersonators." Why? Because in my books and articles I have questioned the basic premise of contemporary American feminism.</p>