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

“I was part of the women’s lib generation. I was proud I was able to support myself and not have to depend on somebody else to keep a roof over my head,” Maxwell said.

From Washington Post • Dec. 4, 2019

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

In this context, the acceptance of middle age becomes a feminist act, and the same seems to have been true for Lessing in 1973, whatever her crotchety scepticism about women’s lib.

From The Guardian • Aug. 11, 2018