Mary Tyler Moore Archives - Old Ain't Dead

A Personal Manifesto

5 Comments / Movies, TV series / By Virginia DeBolt / October 18, 2018 / Aldo Ray, Alfre Woodard, Alice Walker, Amy Tan, Angela Bassett, Annie Potts, Annie Proulx, Blair Borwn, Carol Burnett, Dana Delany, Dana Stabenow, Diana Galbaldon, Edwidge Danicatt, Elizabeth Berg, Gene Autry, Gloria Steinem, Halle Berry, Holly Hunter, Janet Evanovich, Janine Turner, Jeanette Winterson, Jennifer Beals, Joan Didion, Julia Roberts, Julie Christie, Leslie Marmon Silko, Lorraine Toussaint, Marg Helgenberger, Margaret Atwood, Mary McCarthy, Mary Tyler Moore, Meg Ryan, Meryl Streep, Montgomery Clift, Nora Roberts, Queen Latifa, Rita Dove, Rita Mae Brown, Roy Rogers, Sandra Bullock, Sandra Cisneros, Sara Paretsky, Sarah Waters, Shirley MacLaine, Susan Sarandon, Toni Morrison, Zora Neale Hurston

A couple of decades ago I realized everything in my life up to that point had been determined by men. I can hear my friend Denise shouting, “It’s the patriarchy, stupid!” That’s not it – at least not completely. The patriarchy is still with us. But inside my head, things have changed.