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Whisp

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3. Sometimes that's all the power some of us have.

Reply to clyrc (Original post)

Mon Mar 5, 2012, 01:41 PM

Mar 2012

''I am trying my best to raise my daughters with less to hold them back. I don't want them to have to fight a harmful default background noise like I have to fight every day of life. ''

and that is powerful - to get the next generation a little wiser, a little stronger. Whether by teaching our sons and daughters as parents or as teachers, friends, family, etc.,

The anti-woman news lately has got me frozen in fear, not for myself, but for our kids. I almost don't even want to hear some of this stuff and want to hide from it but I can't, for lots of reasons.

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It was challenging being a feminist in the US. It is much worse living in the Middle East [View all] clyrc Mar 2012 OP

k and r-- you are doing a lot, you know. you are working on yourself, and you are rearing your niyad Mar 2012 #1

Thank you, niyad clyrc Mar 2012 #2

Sometimes that's all the power some of us have. Whisp Mar 2012 #3