“I am strong. I am invincible. I am woman”
The efforts of Gloria Steinem and the Women’s Liberation Movement spanned decades, but the fight for the ERA and the congressional hearings of 1970 brought feminism to the mainstream.
“I Am Woman” was written to fill a serious void in the market and Reddy’s personal eagerness to hear a song that spoke to the female experience.
It soon became the unofficial anthem of the movement.
The straightforward lyrics are not particularly nuanced, but they offer a clarion call for a generation of women ready to fight for equal rights.
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