Influence
The Manifesto, according to Lyon, is "notorious and influential" and was "one of the earliest ... one of the most radical" of "tracts produced by" "various strands of the American women's liberation movement." Lyon said that "by 1969 it had become a kind of bible" for Cell 16, in Boston. Whether the Manifesto should be considered a feminist classic is challenged by Heller because the Manifesto rejected a hierarchy of greatness, but she said it "remains an influential feminist text."
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“Exhaust them, wrestle with them, let them not go until their blessing be won, and, after a short season, the dismay will be overpast, the excess of influence withdrawn, and they will be no longer an alarming meteor, but one more brighter star shining serenely in your heaven, and blending its light with all your day.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)
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—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)
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