upthere's a tendency to mix all of the myths with facts.he truth is that married women women, safest of all safer then divorced, widowed, single, and especially safer than those who are cohabiting. host: this is from a 1971 cover story. she said women have the right to define their own values, order their own priorities and decide their own fate. why was she such a large figure during this time period. guest: i think she captured a lot of the zeitgeist at the moment. she's a beautiful writer, very clean writer. she spoke to a lot of people, and, again, it was a moment in time when people -- we heard this really from all of our colleagues -- people wanted to address these issues, and she was a different voice, and she really just put a finger, a pinprick on some of the deep yearnings that women had aside from politics, but just to have a voice, to have an identity, to have dreams of being something other than a housewife, and she was a beautiful writer, and i think again, she got a voice out there that lots of people responded to. former pre