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Belief in her power as a mediator for the oppressed has prompted faithful followers to carry her image into battle for over 400 years.
Most women feel less oppressed by their husbands' pretensions to authority than by the work that falls to them because of their husbands' neglect.
Also of note are explicit examples of Roosevelt's anti-Semitism both in her private life and her public life: She was an advocate for the oppressed in all corners of the world--except, apparently, in Nazi Germany.
I laughed out loud when I got to the part where the author insisted that although the "girls" (uh, we're known as women here in the Islamic world, too) "claimed" they weren't oppressed by the veil, they, like, really were.
(Barone compares Cuba to Nazi Germany and Stalinist Russia, and O'Beirne calls Cuban-Americans an oppressed ethnic minority.)