 I had no words for these feelings. And then people started using the word Ms. Suddenly, there was this handle with which I could identify myself and understand why I felt so out of whack with the culture around me. |
| The work that must be done for each woman to reconnect with her psyche and to give herself a chance to live her own life is essentially the same. The realization of the equality of all races, the equality of all beings is essential. |
| When there's an opportunity to do more, we must. |
| Everything good that I know was taught to me by great teachers and I feel like giving back and sharing the technique is the thing to do. |
| Our stories are different; our pain is the same. |
| I have never experienced racism in the feminist movement, so it concerned me to think that I was unable to see the subject clearly because I came from white, middle-class privilege. |
| The pure connecting factor is that those of us who describe ourselves as feminists want equal rights for all people. |
| Feminism - the word - can give us a handle, a rallying point, a common ground, and help us build a bridge. Why not claim the gift of the word as a place to begin? |
| It was critical to finding a way out. I had assumed young women knew the history of feminism and must have felt gratitude to the movement for the opportunities that the work we have done has afforded them. |
| We can't compare stories. We can only know in our hearts that we are the same. That may be the best we can do. |
| So, when the discussion about not using the term feminist came up at a conference workshop, I couldn't believe it. The more I listened, the more I felt the need to express my passion about my identity as a feminist. |
| The word, and the concept of feminism, was a gift because it gave me a sense of identity and a way of defining how I wished to live my life. |
| If we're for one another, we're feminists. The rest is semantics. |
