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Civil Rights

Feb. 7, 2015

You've come a long way, baby — Part III

"Never underestimate the power of a woman." That is truer today than perhaps at any other time in modern history. And sadly, not always in a good way.

Julie L. Kessler

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Manhattan Beach , CA 90267-1582

Phone: (310) 403-0009

Email: Julie@VagabondLawyer.com

George Washington Univ Law School

Julie is an attorney based in Los Angeles, a freelance writer for several publications, and the author of the award-winning book "Fifty-Fifty, The Clarity of Hindsight." She can be reached at www.VagabondLawyer.com

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The Bard wrote "Hell hath no fury like a woman scorned." In the context in which Shakespeare wrote that now overused sentence, he may have in fact been correct. However, that phrase has often now been replaced by "Never underestimate the power of a woman." That is truer today than perhaps at any other time in modern history. And sadly, not always in a good way.

In this column in November 2013, I wrote about the first three women to ever successfully complete the punishing U.S. Mar...

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