Ball State Women's Lecture; Ball State Women's Lecture

  • Introduction
  • Judy Grey
  • Molly Begins
  • Age of consent joke
  • Equal shooting rights
  • Ann Richards
  • Scholz Biergarten story with Ann Richards, Bob Bullock, and Charlie Myles
  • 1970 Westlake Hills Ann Richards story in reaction to "jugs" description. Ann mentions dicks and balls.
  • Women at advantage
  • Comonness of women mayors in Texas
  • Slow progress of women in congress
  • Governing classes looking more like the people
  • Family Medical Leave
  • Carrie Meeks working as a domestic
  • "Female Chauvinist"
  • Best training for politicians is motherhood
  • Ann Richards' start
  • Ann Richards as a role model
  • Importance for kids to see people who look like them in positions of power and authority.
  • Emma Thompson quote
  • No juicy roles for women in film.
  • "Screw me or screw you!"
  • Betty Friedan, Bella Azbug, Gloria Steinem
  • Hillary Clinton
  • "George Bush does not like broccoli"
  • The Washington Press is threatened by strong women
  • Hillary Clinton is kinder & funnier than what people think
  • Madonna/whore dichotomy
  • Andrea Dworkin
  • Pornography will eventually go away
  • John Henry Faulk/ACLU/Reverend Weaver/Citizen's Against Pornography Story
  • Fear causes people to do terrible things
  • Don't romanticize women
  • Women have to get out and get done
  • Marble Falls gravestone "Rudolf Richter....and wife"
  • H. Ross Perot
  • Ross Perot sounds like a chihuahua
  • Ross Perot as a "communist"
  • Molly writes that Ross Perot makes over a million dollars a year. He makes a million dollars a day. Ross Perot calls her collect.
  • Molly "adores Dan Quayle"
  • "Ross Perot is slightly paranoid which is like being slightly pregnant: it gets worse."
  • Molly discusses how being in business does not make a good president.
  • Not anti-gun but is pro-knife
  • Raising the speed limit to make traffic accidents equal to handgun injuries and death
  • Big Hair Day "No report from Texas which is too insane to be believed."
  • Henry B. Gonzales
  • Clady Williams (Sp?) quote about rape
  • Moral Majority and the Christian Coalition
  • "Rainey" by Clive Edgerton
  • Fundamentalist paranoia caused by a lack of sympathy for their fears.
  • Bob Krueger
  • Kay Bailey Hutchinson