When a Wanderess has been caged, or perched with her wings clipped, She lives like a Stoic, She lives most heroic, smiling with ruby, moistened lips once her cup of Death is welcome sipped.
Feminism will better succeed with collective effort, but feminist success can also rise out of personal conduct. I hear many young women say they can__ find well-known feminists with whom they identify. That can be disheartening, but I say, let us (try to) become the feminists we would like to see moving through the world.
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Feminism will better succeed with collective effort, but feminist success can also rise out of personal conduct. I hear many young women say they can__ find well-known feminists with whom they identify. That can be disheartening, but I say, let us (try to) become the feminists we would like to see moving through the world.
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