Wednesday, June 23, 1982
PRESS RELEASE
Women's Fast for Justice
Springfield, Illinois
Many of you have asked us if we would consider the fast successful if the ERA were not ratified before June 30.
Today we conclude 37 days of fasting; we announce that, yes, we do consider the fast a success.
We 7 women, representing millions of women across this country, have demonstrated that ordinary women can do extraordinary things and that women can be more than they dream they could be.
If nothing else, this message of courage that has gone out across this country has made this fast successful.
The fast has empowered and unified women and strengthened feelings of sisterhood.
Having succeeded in these ways we have invited you here to announce that our fast and this particular witness is at an end. We also invite you to witness the beginning of a new era - an era of women moving towards their own agenda and putting it first in their lives, their laws, their economics, their electoral politics and their spirituality.
Here's to the new era of women.
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