Feminism Hits Middle Age

Two years ago, Oprah Winfrey was pulled up short. Miss Winfrey (a 1988 Ms. magazine Woman of the Year) discovered that one of the guests on her “Women: Life in the ’80s” special, a Mrs. Janice Twede of Salt Lake City, Utah, actually owned a sewing machine. Miss Winfrey was pixilated.

Miss Winfrey: And to us, who work in this . . . that is a foreign thing, like a sewing machine? You own one? A sewing . . . and you use it?

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Two years ago, Oprah Winfrey was pulled up short. Miss Winfrey (a 1988 Ms. magazine Woman of the Year) discovered that one of the guests on her “Women: Life in the ’80s” special, a Mrs. Janice Twede of Salt Lake City, Utah, actually owned a sewing machine. Miss Winfrey was pixilated.

Miss Winfrey: And to us, who work in this . . . that is a foreign thing, like a sewing machine? You own one? A sewing . . . and you use it?