Quote by Janet Mary Riley found in “New Marriage Laws: Not One Woman Opposed Them”, Distaff interview, January 1980
- Title
- Quote by Janet Mary Riley found in “New Marriage Laws: Not One Woman Opposed Them”, Distaff interview, January 1980
- Subject
- Riley, Janet Mary
- Loyola University (New Orleans, La.)
- Description
- Reprint of quote for exhibit use.
- "It brings Louisiana into the 2Oth century. But we have to understand that it wasn’t handed to us by the legislature. We fought for it every inch of the way."
- Creator
- White, Sara
- Loyola University (New Orleans, La.)
- Source
- Allured, Janet. Remapping Second-Wave Feminism: the long women's rights movement in Louisiana, 1950-1997. (Athens, GA: University of Georgia Press, 2016), 260.
- Publisher
- Loyola University (New Orleans, La.)
- Date
- 2017
- 1980-01
- Contributor
- Riley, Janet Mary
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- Text
- It brings Louisiana into the 2Oth century. But we have to understand that it wasn’t handed to us by the legislature. We fought for it every inch of the way.
-- JMR, “New Marriage Laws: Not One Woman Opposed Them”, Distaff interview, January 1980
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Citation
White, Sara and Loyola University (New Orleans, La.), “Quote by Janet Mary Riley found in “New Marriage Laws: Not One Woman Opposed Them”, Distaff interview, January 1980,” Loyola University New Orleans Special Collections & Archives, accessed November 11, 2024, https://loynosca.omeka.net/items/show/30.