The Denise O’Brien interview follows her life chronologically from an urban childhood through several years of a counterculture lifestyle in California and Vermont to her roles as wife, mother, and activist in rural Iowa. Of particular interest are her memories of the role of a grass-roots groups, the Prairie Progressives, as a political base for later efforts by Dave Ostendorf, Daniel Levitas, and Dixon Terry. She felt that the male leadership of the farm movement promoted a feminist rhetoric, but refused women any real positions of power. She discussed her presidency of the National Farm Family Coalition in the early 1990s and the dissolution of a progressive farm movement in that decade.