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I'm flattered by even the hint of a comparison
to Gage. I think there are many women today
who are providing the same leadership that
Gage provided. However, the two
specific things that seem to have made
her unique among her peers:
1) her work with Native Americans, and
2) her work with religion.
For the latter,
I would name three women who are doing
much the same — Helen Hunt (founder
of The
Sister Fund), Frances Kissling (formerly
of Catholics for a Free Choice) and also
Karen Armstrong — though she is more
exclusively a writer, and Gage was both
a writer and an activist. There are two
other younger women, and sadly, I'm entirely
blanking on their names. In terms of her
ability to work with "marginalized" communities — I
think that Mia Herndon, who works at Third
Wave, would be an interesting one as well
as Wyndi Anderson or Lynn Paltrow.
-- Amy
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