Well, do you know what I hope for, once I allow myself to begin to hope? [. . . ] That you find in your love for people something not only to work for, but to comfort and restore you when there is a need.
My debt to feminism is simply incalculable. Feminism allowed me to see past a 'reality' that I had once taken as a given. It helped me to pay attention to countless voices, my own included, that I had been taught 'don't count. ' Feminism allows me to maintain hope.