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Still Watching: Mrs. America - Ep. 7, “Bella” with Margo Martindale

Still Watching

Vanity Fair

Arts

4.21.6K Ratings

🗓️ 14 May 2020

⏱️ 60 minutes

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Joanna Robinson and Richard Lawson of Vanity Fair are Still Watching: Mrs. America, the FX on Hulu miniseries about the debate over the Equal Rights Amendment in the 1970s. This week, Joanna and Richard cover the seventh episodes of the series: “Bella” This podcast includes a special guest interview with Margo Martindale, who talks about portraying Bella Abzug on the series and her personal memories of the period depicted in the series. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0

Please join me, welcoming, Ellis, Clarklaid!

0:04.0

They say that women are like teabags.

0:09.0

You don't know their strength until they get into hot water.

0:14.0

We need to talk about the threat of the women's liberation movement.

0:19.0

So let me be clear, I am not against women working outside the home. That's my choice.

0:25.0

What I am against is a small elitist group putting down homemakers.

0:31.0

They want to create a sex neutral society which will mean that women are

0:36.3

going to find themselves with two full-time job. Though you need to tell your

0:41.0

senators you want them to vote no on this equal rights amendment

0:45.6

so we can have a country that we are proud to leave our office.

0:50.0

Hello and welcome back to you still watching Mrs America I'm Vannity Fair senior writer Joanna Robinson

0:56.0

and I'm vanity fair, chief critic Richard Lawson.

0:59.0

Each week on still watching me like to break down the latest episode of some show that we are sort of currently obsessing over

1:04.8

watching in a deep dive kind of way right now we're watching Mrs America we're sort of

1:09.6

coming towards the end we're in the home stretch here with the episode

1:13.2

Bella so if you have not watched the episode Bella yet you might want to go ahead

1:17.8

and press pause on this and go watch it because we'll be talking all about that and

1:22.2

of course we'll be hearing from the amazing

1:24.4

Marga Martindale about her performance as Bella Abzug so we will have that interview at the

1:29.6

back of this episode but first Richard and I are going to break it all down. You can always

1:36.5

email us still watching pot at gmail.com we haven't been getting sort of as many

1:41.4

emails for this as we usually do for like our theory shows because I think

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