Journalist Quindlen touts female strides

URBANA – Anna Quindlen's own family tree illustrates the progress the country has made in the lives and rights of women, in just three generations.

The Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist and novelist called it the "greatest societal change in the history of the country." Quindlen was the keynote speaker Wednesday afternoon at the Biennial Conference for Women at the University of Illinois.

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