The Unkillable Kitty O'Kane

by Colin Falconer

You remember that march we went to in Washington? We got spat at and punched and kicked, and the police just stood by and watched. And what did the papers say? They called it a parade and talked about the hats we wore. What did that magazine say? ‘For the marchers the ballot was important, but shopping is rarely far from a woman’s mind.’”

“No, what I’m saying is, why do we have a world where the poor have to pay so the rich won’t lose their money? I think we need a war all right, but not a war in Europe; we need a class war, a war against the capitalists. If the workers are going to fight for something, they should fight for themselves!” “And what about women?” Kitty said. The two men stopped arguing and stared at her. “What?” Lincoln said. “Shouldn’t women fight as well? There’s hundreds of thousands of us all across America; we’re overworked and underpaid. It’s men who have all legal rights over us and over our children. It’s men who control our economic existence. It’s men who hold the deeds to our property. Shouldn’t we fight as well?”