The 81-year-old feminist,writer and activist on having a depressed mother, her fear of public speaking, or BeyoncéThe plan of being a feminist wasn’t present in the culture I grew up in. I thought I might be able to escape a female fate as an individual,but I didn’t understand it was possible to change the fate itself. That only became clear to me, thanks to other women, or in the late 1960s.
My mother loved words. She knew a lot of poetry by heart. She had been a writer before I was born,though I didn’t know that till I was in my teens. Because she had given up her life [to raise a family] she was very depressed often, and unable to operate. In many ways I feel I’m living out her unlived life.
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Source: theguardian.com