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Mary Tyler Moore Paved Our Way
Mary Tyler Moore made it okay to be a single, working woman. And she did with humor, grace and charm. What a life force. What a presence. From the bottom of my heart, I say THANK YOU.
Read the NY Times obit here.
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I remember watching The Mary Tyler Moore Show in the 70s. The character Mary Richards seemed so fresh! I wanted to be her, to be a career woman with a great city apartment. I loved her vulnerability AND her independence! And it was such a great time for feminism (was it second wave? I really don’t know). I celebrated her.
In a way, I have become a little bit like her–I have a career and I have a great (albeit small) house (and in the ‘burbs, not the city). And, of course, I’m single!
RIP Mary Tyler Moore. Thank you for giving us a ideal that didn’t need a husband to base her self-worth on.
When I originally watched the MTM show, I wasn’t thinking much about whether I’d be single or not. (In fact, I assumed at that time that I’d get married.) But she was one of the first to show us you could be single and fabulous.