It was frequently said [during the 1988 presidential campaign] to be the Year of the Woman, and the convention had clearly been shaped to make the ticket attractive to women, but its notion of what might attract women was clumsy, off, devised as it was buy men who wanted simultaneously to signal the electorate that they were in firm control of any woman who might have her own agenda.
- Joan Didion, "Political Fictions," in Political Fictions (p.811 in We Tell Ourselves Stories in Order to Live)
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