What Helen Reddy Meant to Us
Let’s Make Her Anthem ‘I Am Woman’ Great Again
4 min readOct 2, 2020
When Helen Reddy’s anthem ‘I Am Woman’ topped Billboard magazine’s Hot 100 chart in December 1972, I was nine years old. I didn’t know what a feminist was, didn’t understand why the words felt so powerful or even what women all over the country were feeling. But I did shout the song at the top of my lungs when it came on the radio; its…
