Lots of people are angry and just can't figure out where to aim their anger. We forget how to do anything political. Every generation has to start al… - Marge Piercy

The use of women as props for a sagging ego is accepted socially. Everybody sees it and everybody agrees that they don't.

My political ideas changed when feminism of the second wave developed. I had read Simone de Beauvoir’s The Second Sex partly in French, then far more easily in English as soon as it came out. But there was almost no context then for my feminist leanings until in 1967, we began to organize in women’s liberation. I learned a lot from Marxism but probably lean more toward syndicalist anarchism

The best way, we always say, to learn to write memoirs is to read memoirs and learn from those that don't work for you as well as from those who do. Look at how they did things. Separate out the craft elements. If you want to write detective stories, read them. If you want to write historical novels, read them.