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title: "How 'Our Bodies, Ourselves' Changed Women's Lives"
date: 2023-12-04T18:00:00-05:00
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[Media Coverage](/media-coverage)# How 'Our Bodies, Ourselves' Changed Women's Lives

NBC Nightly News • October 25, 2011

> In their own words: About 40 years ago, the short pamphlet on female health issues became a game-changer for women who weren’t getting enough information from their doctors. Director Nora Ephron, breast surgeon Dr. Susan Love, former Planned Parenthood president Faye Wattleton, political analyst Mona Charen, and other women share what the book meant to them.

  
**Watch the full report:** [How 'Our Bodies, Ourselves' Changed Women's Lives](http://www.nbcnews.com/video/nightly-news/45039563#45039563)

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