The Things We Cannot Say

by Kelly Rimmer

To destabilize a group of people is not at all difficult, not if you are willing to be cruel enough. You simply knock out the foundations, and a natural consequence is that the rest begins to tumble.

Didn’t I understand how hard my foremothers fought in the first and second waves of feminism for my right to a career? How could I betray them by accepting a life where I was dependent on a man?

“Home is not the country we stand in—it’s us. Home is the future we have been planning and dreaming of. We can build it anywhere.