TOC: Knowing what you know now, what might you have done differently?
James: Nothing!
Rose: Nothing!
Katz: Nothing!
Kurshan: I would have done one thing differently. As a woman, I would have fought harder and stronger to have my voice be heard earlier.
Peck: I think I was who I was then, so to re-gild the lily doesn’t make any sense.
Katz: I think I was who I was now. I think that by the summer of ’68, women were pretty strong, while we were fighting in SDS around women’s stuff, I think Bernardine [Dohrn] and I felt pretty—leadership, in that nobody was going to push us around.
James: I just followed the women.
Schultz: (to Nancy) When were you shy?
Kurshan: When was I shy?
Schultz: Yes.
Kurshan: When I was five.
Schultz: Five?
Kurshan: Yes. And when I went to parties.
All: (Laugh)
Kurshan: There were always exceptional women, I think, but that’s not the same thing as fighting for the voice and the role of women.
James: For us, though, I mean, we did. I remember at [Rising Up] Angry, a young guy saying, “The sisters run it, right or wrong.”

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