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The expression "Good girls go to heaven, but bad girls go everywhere" made its way into popular culture in the 1960s. The quote is attributed to both Mae West and to the controversial Cosmopolitan editor and Sex and the Single Girl author Helen Gurley Brown. The song "Good Girls Go to Heaven (Bad Girls Go Everywhere)" , written by Jim Steinman and performed by Pandora's Box and Meatloaf, was based on the quote. 

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Award winning American cartoonist, artist and author, Jim Benton, first gained success in the 1980’s with licensing his cartoon “Misters” series. The comic drawings display the ineptness of the Everyman in various situations. With the success of the “Misters,” he created a series with the female version of the character, the “Ms.” Recently, he authored the Franny K. Stein and the Dear Dumb Diary book series.

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The Mary Tyler Moore Show (originally known simply by the name of the show's star, Mary Tyler Moore) was an iconic sitcom in the 1970s. The show was groundbreaking because it featured a never-married, independent career woman as protagonist for first time on television. Mary Richards, played by Mary Tyler Moore, is a single woman in her thirties who moves to Minneapolis after breaking off an engagement with her boyfriend of 2 years. The show explored many issues such as equal pay for women, pre-marital sex, and homosexuality in its comedic plots and received wide applauds from both audience and critics.

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In the 1950s some Americans started protesting nuclear tests and nuclear proliferation. This movement intensified in the early 1960s as the Cold War caused increased concern about nuclear war with the Soviet Union, but faded in the late 1960s and 1970s as anti-Vietnam War protests took the forefront among peace activists. In the 1980s the antinuclear movement was revitalized by concerns about Reagan's talk of nuclear war. "You can't hug children with nuclear arms" was a popular slogan of the antinuclear movement starting in the 1980s and appeared on bumper stickers, signs at protests, and buttons like this one, which came in several colors.

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This phrase implies that the wearer was raised to be good and follow the rules, but has since been exposed to a different way of life and now enjoys breaking those rules.

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The popular phrase “the best man for the job is a woman” most likely inspired the book Why the Best Man for the Job is a Woman: The Unique Female Qualities of Leadership by Esther Wachs Book, published in 2000. The book celebrates women breaking the glass ceiling and thriving in professions that were previously male dominated. This empowering phrase has been quoted by women taking or campaigning for roles previously held by men. The former Massachusetts Attorney General Martha Coakley used the phrase while campaigning for governor in 2014. Most recently, in 2018 Cé­cile La Grenade, the first female gov­er­nor-gen­er­al of Grena­da, declared “The best man for the job is a woman!” as she contextualized the social and economic role of Caribbean women.