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“The mother stands for the victim in ourselves, the unfree woman, the martyr. Our personality seemed dangerously to blur and overlap with our mothers, and in a desperate attempt to know where mother ends and daughter begins we perform radical surgery” Adrienne Rich, Of Woman Born.

“My goal as a feminist is not to compete with men in their world -that’s too easy and ultimately unproductive. My job is to live fully as a woman enjoying the whole of myself in my place in the universe.” -Madeline L’Engle 1987 Ms. magazine