Edie speaks:
LYN: “Edie works for a liberal left newspaper.
She writes a column, “Boycotts of the Month.”- “They fired my radical ass. I’m back working on my book, “What’s Left of the Left”.”
- LYN: “Hey, hey, whatta ya say, ratify the ERA.
- What a night that was… “Women’s Strike for Equality.” 1970.
My best friends Edie and Marge and I were there that August, marching with 50,000 others down Fifth Avenue. We thought we were going to change it all. “The power of our Sisterhood. Oh I feel such a rush of positive ‘woman-energy’.” - EDIE: “Women’s lib stands for liberation, not libido. What good is it, sis, to have sexual freedom, if you become a slave to it? Marge, you’ve got COSMO damage.”
LYN: “At least Marge has figured out from those women’s magazines what shape face she has, Edie.”
EDIE: “So she can apply make-up to overcome flaws? That’s what these conscious-ness raising, self-exami-nations are all about. I look at my self… I don’t see any flaws.” - MARGE: “She wears camouflage fatigues all the time.”
(To EDIE) “Honey, you couldn’t be more anti-war, but if it weren’t for army surplus, you’d have nothing to wear… I’m not exaggerating, Lyn. Edie was in my shop in that camouflage get up – I almost watered her.” - EDIE: “Hey, sis… water this…”
(Raising her arms)
“Tah-dah!!”
MARGE: “What is that? – – Spanish Moss?”
LYN: “Hair under the arms! Edie, you’re probably on some F.B.I. list of the politically dangerous.”
MARGE: “How did you manage that much growth? I mean, the Women’s Movement is still young.” - “Ah Edie, next to you, Bob is the truest feminist I’ve ever met. He’s the only man I’ve ever known who knew where he was when Sylvia Plath died.”
- “Pam and Edie are having a baby. Artificial insemination. They used a turkey baster, then they just let nature take its course.”
- “So, did the Sisters see Billie Jean bust Bobby Riggs’s chauvinistic butt or what?”
- “Can you believe Henry Kissinger saying, “Power is the ultimate aphrodisiac”? The bombing in Cambodia shows what it takes for him to get it up.”
