"You're always the person you were when you were born," she says impatiently. "You just keep finding new ways to express it." - Gloria Steinem

You should write about take no-shit women like me. Girls need to know they can break the rules

I pray for the courage
To walk naked
At any age
To wear red and purple,
To be unladylike,
Inappropriate,
Scandalous and incorrect
To the very end.

We might have known sooner that the most reliable predictor of whether a country is violent within itself — or will use military violence against another country — is not poverty, natural resources, religion, or even degree of democracy; it’s violence against females. It normalizes all other violence.