She's Beautiful When She's Angry Page #4

way and be a certain way,

but there's a whole lot more...

ROSEN:
We went around the room, and

people asked a very simple question.

How would your life have been

different if you had been a boy?

Why do you think being a woman

might limit you as a human

being, your possibilities?

(woman continues, indistinct)

BEAL:
We challenged

concepts of masculinity.

We challenged concepts of femininity.

We talked about skin color,

how young black women would put cream on

in order to make theirself light-skinned.

SHULMAN:
Suddenly, everything

was up for questioning.

Women did all of the family

and housework and cooking,

and the men got to make the living

and get all of the attention in the world.

Why was that?

We don't even realize what goes on

until we sit and compare with other women.

GRIFFIN:
And we heard each other.

We heard each other into speech.

You could sense it. You could feel it.

You could cut it with a knife, as they say.

The room was electric

with whatever was gonna be shared.

So I said, (sighs)

I've had three abortions,

and the last one was within the last year.

And I started to cry,

because I suddenly understood

that I wasn't alone,

that what I had considered

personal embarrassment

was something that was part of

this whole larger experience.

The big insight of the women's

movement was the personal is political.

Problems that you felt

were happening to you alone

probably were your fault.

But if it's happening to other people,

then it's a social problem and

not just a personal problem.

Once you stop blaming

yourself for all this,

it was like somebody had

lifted a rock off of you.

Then here were women around you who were ready

to go out there and do something about it.

(chanting)

You're out on the streets

Lookin' good

- (continues)

- WOMAN:
In Washington, DC,

we were like,

"Have Demonstration, Will Travel."

(continues)

WOLFSON:
We demonstrated

in the halls of Congress.

We demonstrated outside of Congress.

There was a group called

Women's International Terrorist

Conspiracy from Hell... WITCH...

that was the action arm.

People had folding witch

hats and capes in their bag.

And we thought if we

could dress up like witches

and then give a hex to people.

We wanted to challenge the white men's

canon at the University of Chicago.

And so part of the hex went, "Knowledge

is power through which you control

our mind, our spirit,

our bodies, our soul."

- Hex!

- Yeah

What you see here is the

beginning of a movement

that women are human beings

and that we have equal rights.

We intend to go to school, we intend to

have child care so that we can go to school.

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