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“Because Lori Sokol tells the truth about her own story — and listens with her heart — thirty diverse women have told her the truth of their lives. ‘She Is Me’ takes us from global to personal.” – Gloria Steinem
“Female solidarity and more feminist men in politics – that’s how we’ll build a more feminist and livable future.”
Let me tell you what being polite does. It shrinks our soul, diminishes our shine, and it keeps us wedged—tucked—into a corner.
Fundamental to the fight for gender equality has been the rejection of the definition of gender as the sum of our body parts.
This is the year where hand baskets go out of fashion, because we are not going to hell, we are going to raise hell.
“Money has been used to rank us. It could be used to link us. You and I can decide.”
It was remarkable to me how I could have such contrasting experiences in the same place, and only a few days apart.
Here, over here, look at me – look at me, I know you – you won’t win because nasty has an expiration date, and your time is up, buddy.
There was the pregnancy; the one where I behaved like a needy, desperate young woman; using that pregnancy as a weapon to try and get that man to love me, to want me — to want me and the baby. “Why don’t we abort you and keep the baby?” he finally said.