We need to imagine a world in which every woman is the presiding genius of her own body. In such a world women will truly create new life, bringing forth not only children if and as we choose but the visions, and the thinking, necessary to sustain, console and alter human existence-a new relationship to the universe. Sexuality, politics, intelligence, power, motherhood, work, community, intimacy will develop new meanings; thinking itself will be transformed. This is where we have to begin. β¨ Adrienne Rich (1976). Of woman born motherhood as experience and institution
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- But can you imagine how some of them were envying you your freedom to work, to think, to travel, to enter a room as yourself, not as some childβs mother or some manβs wife?β¦we have no familiar, ready β¦ βΆ
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