Back nonfeminist issues, lawmaker urges parley

DAYTON (P)-Women have to support nonfeminist issues and recruit people who are opposed to their goals, Massachusetts State Rep. Elaine Noble told the Ohio conference of the National Organization for Women here.

"I want power. Not just for me, but for myself and my sisters,' she said.

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The Boston Democrat, avowed lesbian, said women must learn to seek approval from themselves rather than from men.

"You have to offend people. By your very presence, you offend them," she said. "But that's their problem, not yours."

Lesbians are not man-haters, she said. "We don't have to hate men. Oftentimes the women who hate men are the ones who wash their socks."

She said women in NOW must support desegregation and equal rights for homosexuals so those groups will support feminist issues.