"I Am Woman" is a song written by Helen Reddy and singer-songwriter Ray Burton and performed by Reddy. The song first appeared on Reddy's debut album I Don't Know How to Love Him, released in May 1971. A different version, recorded for the film Stand Up and Be Counted, was released as a single in May 1972 and became a number one hit later that year, selling over one million copies. A song celebrating female empowerment, it became an enduring anthem for the women’s liberation movement.
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“At the end of one millennium and nine centuries of Christianity, it remains an unshakable assumption of the law in all Christian countries and of the moral judgment of Christians everywhere that if a man and a woman, entering a room together, close the door behind them, the man will come out sadder and the woman wiser.”
—H.L. (Henry Lewis)