“Characteristically, major social movements are spawned in obscurity at the periphery of public awareness, seem to burst suddenly and dramatically into public view, and eventually fade into the landscape not because they have diminished but because they have become a permanent part of our perceptions and experience.”

—  Freda Adler

Source: Sisters in Crime: The Rise of the New Female Criminal (1975), P. 5.

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