This is just sentimental twaddle. Unfortunately Greenham Common women had no impact on the decision made to close the air base. That was done late thanks to (male geo politics.
And their impact on the public imagination was virtually nil, and certainly less than the Miner's Wives campaign. They were just seen as ridiculous out of touch middle class hippies, and didn't get much support from women's liberation activists.
And of course did absolutely zilch to help the oppose the sex class war against women.
Whoa! First of all, the Greenham Common Women were women's liberation activists, of one kind, in a movement of many different kinds of activists, and anyone who just saw them as 'ridiculous out of touch middle class hippies' wasn't looking very hard. As well as the variety of women who actually lived there, there were tens of thousands of women who joined in the Greenham protests as and when they could.
Their impact on the public imagination was significant - how could it not be when you had 50,000, 70,000 women from all walks of life turning up at the Greenham demos? After the big demo where tens of thousands of women completely encircled the base, the media coverage was huge and often very positive- one of the daily papers had a photo of the crowd, with a huge two-word headline: MUMS' ARMY and very supportive reporting.
And interestingly, the fact that it was a women's protest was understood and mostly respected.
The symbolism of women working together and sacrificing so much to oppose militarism - often by just making the military look silly - had a lasting influence.
There was the miners' strike, Tottenham Three, Greenham, anti-racism, Reclaim the Night, Birmingham Six, Guildford Four, Women against Violence against Women and lots of other strands of activism going on around that time. In my experience, many women - including 'Greenham women' - were active across several of these areas, including supporting the striking miners.
Not everybody saw it as either/or.