As he always said, “If I don’t know what will happen tomorrow, it could be wonderful!
Once I became a freelance writer, I also realized the value of his ability to live with and even love insecurity.
If hard things ultimately have a purpose, then they aren’t so hard anymore.
The nature and specifics of the negative depend on the part of the country and the year, but the common thread is: self-doubt.
It was the 1950s, and I confused growing up with settling down.
In the same way that individual women are often underestimated, a movement of women is also underestimated.
If feminism means anything, it means taking responsibility for ourselves: for our own lives and actions. It is not “women as victims” but women refusing to be victims. What we need, as adults or children, is just one person who has confidence in us, so we can have confidence in ourselves.
People want to come home to the church of their childhood without having to leave their adult selves behind.
To transform inequality in the outside world, we have to start inside the home. We have to get rid of the old idea that what happens to men is political, and therefore subject to change, but what happens to women is cultural, and therefore can’t, or shouldn’t, be changed.
Native nations were often matrilineal: that is, clan identity passed through the mother, and a husband joined a wife’s household, not vice versa. Matrilineal does not mean matriarchal, which, like patriarchal, assumes that some group has to dominate – a failure of the imagination.
Whatever you’ve imagined your limits of strength and daring to be, the strongest woman in the world can inspire you to go beyond them. That’s what champions are for.
It was a constitutional convention for the female half of the country. After all, we had been excluded from the first one.
Clearly, Columbus never “discovered” America, in either sense of that word. The people who knew it were already here.
Progress itself is rooted in a seasonal journey. Perhaps our need to escape into media is a misplaced desire for the journey.
It was a game, and life was the playing field.
All I knew was that my father enjoyed my company, asked my opinion, and treated me better than he treated himself. What more could any child want?
Whether by dowry murders in India, honor killings in Egypt, or domestic violence in the United States, records show that women are most likely to be beaten or killed at home and by men they know. Statistically speaking, home is an even more dangerous place for woman than the road. Perhaps the most revolutionary act for a woman will be a self willed journey-and to be welcomed when she comes home.
What we didn’t talk about were the male staffers who rated our looks, brushed against us in close quarters, and became hazards to be navigated. Our presence was the problem; their behavior was inevitable. Avoiding them while keeping their egos intact was just part of our job.
Roots can exist without flowers, but no flower can exist without roots.
This new diversity will give us a better understanding of the world and enrich our cultural choices, yet.