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Well, I think that her view was that you can't be afraid of provoking harsh opposition. That can't be the measure of how you proceed, or whether you proceed. So, 

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she was willing to say things that other people weren't willing to say, and willing to take the flak for it, although it certainly wasn't pleasant. 

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She didn't want to say things just for the sake of saying them. She wanted to link arguments that she might make to the possibility of change 

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either immediately or building towards change down the road. But, you know, drive-time radio, which happened even in the 1950s, we had this character called, 

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whose name was Joe Rose who had a primetime—not a primetime—a drive-time, in the morning, radio program, who, like, almost every day was

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calling her "Pink Mink," and you know, sort of haranguing about the communists in the territorial legislator, legislature, and so forth. 

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And I would hear this at the age of six, and she would just sort of explain that some people have hysterical reactions when they don't agree, you know. 

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And sort of left it at that. And that kind of thing didn't ever make her want to, I don't know, retract, or be quiet, or anything like that.