The Rubicons which women must cross, the sex barriers which they must breach, are ultimately those that exist in their own minds. - Freda Adler

Characteristically, major social movements are spawned in obscurity at the periphery of public awareness, seem to burst suddenly and dramatically into public view, and eventually fade into the landscape not because they have diminished but because they have become a permanent part of our perceptions and experience.

Perhaps it is the only crime in which the victim becomes the accused and, in reality, it is she who must prove her good reputation, her mental soundness, and her impeccable propriety.

Woman throughout the ages has been mistress to the law, as man has been its master.