women's lib

Example Sentences

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“My character is like an early bird of women’s lib, which Bella becomes then too.”

From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 6, 2024

As a young woman raised in the wake of the modern women’s lib movement, I always believed I came of age during the forward surge of female empowerment.

From Salon • Sep. 14, 2019

Now, decades after the suffrage movement, and women’s lib, and the sexual revolution, the abstract idea of “the wife” still looms large in our cultural imagination—and sanctimony, loyalty, and resentment orbit her like moons.

From The New Yorker • Jun. 5, 2019

Even the roles that turned them into icons fumbled with how to combine teen coolness with women’s lib.

From Washington Post • Jun. 7, 2018

But neither my ardour for women’s lib nor my youth nor all my training could compete with his determination.

From The Guardian • Jun. 4, 2016