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usatoday.com - 10/6/2008
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Did Marlo Thomas have a clue 35 years ago that Free to Be You and Me, the children's book she wrote with friends, was going ...
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When We Grow Up [Free To Be...You And Me]
Jezebel —
[image] It's been 35 years since a generation of kids learned it was "All Right To Cry." That's right, Marlo Thomas' classic 1973 children's book Free To Be...You And Me is all grown up and resissued! The junior manifesto for children of the Me decade was a feminist landmark for its stance on celebrating differences and exploding gender roles. "The message is a rather deep one, that you can choose your own role models, you can fight stereotypes," says Thomas. The children of all those little boys who learned it was okay to play with dolls, or girls who were told they didn't ...
