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Bella: So now we're not gonna have people we disagree with participate?
Gloria: Not if we want Houston to be inclusive.
Bella: You want to be inclusive by excluding? Would you listen to yourself?
Pamela: So anyone can run, not just the liberals?
Phyllis: Yes, it's called the electoral process.
This is exactly what I warned would happen with the Democrats in charge; it's a federally funded festival for frustrated feminists.
Phyllis
I want you to imagine a group of Native Alaskan women getting on a bus in Fairbanks. Appalachian women getting on a bus in Beattyville. Homemakers getting on a bus in Toledo. They're all travelling to represent their state. All of them yearning to have a voice in government. To vote on issues that affect their lives.
Gloria
Gloria: We finally have a place that's ours, and they're going to ruin it.
Bella: I've spent almost ten years in this town; I know what I can get done and what I can't, something you've never had to learn.
Gloria: I've learned that I'm not willing to sit on another convention floor, getting called a murderer of babies. I'm not willing to let women speak who are getting funding by the Birchers. I'm sick of trading our dreams for a bit of the middle. This was supposed to be our Eden, and you've let the snakes in. You were a bigger radical than me when we met.
Bella: And you were a dilettante who wanted to play politics.
If we pull this off, Houston will be the death knell of the women's liberation movement. Let's blow it up.
Phyllis
Bella: It was the first Supreme Court petition I'd ever written, it was my first trip to the south, it was the first time I got a death threat. They said Willie McGee's white woman lawyer should be executed along with him in the electric chair. I slept disguised above a brothel, because vigilantes stalked the hotels. The whole time I was scared shitless. I lost the baby. Stress, the doctor said. They got to me. I left Mississippi before the case was over. I had so much still to do. There is so much still to do.
Gloria: Fear never moved mountains.
Billy likes to say that we educate men and women through college to be precisely equal, but then the men go off to do interesting things.
Jill
Wayne: Is it me, or the gal is never happy?
Shirley: Not when the gals are only making 56% of what the men make.
Wayne: So you won't be happy until you make a hundred percent of what men make?
Shirley, Bella, and Jill: Yes!
Wayne: State meetings open to the public? Sounds like a fiasco.
Jill: I have never been associated with a fiasco. Massacres, yes; fiascos, no.
Jill: Aw, seven more years and you're free!
Phyllis: Motherhood is freedom, Jill.
Jill: I haven't been able to figure out why a Harvard educated expert on Nuclear arms with twenty years experience in defense policy would suddenly take up a women's issue.
Phyllis: It affects me.
