The basic need for women stressed by Rich in front of a class of graduating women in 1979, is the need for an education. She further stresses that it is a woman's right to gain knowledge of their heritage and female roots because if denied such an education, she feels that women will become completely powerless. She wants education in universities to be without any bias and to include any positive and creative roles played by women in history. She wants women to t

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