Quotes
This short article brought many different feminist aspects, which had a long lasting effect on me. "For women, the need and desire to nurture each other is not pathological but redemptive, and it is within that knowledge that our real powers is rediscovered" (36). This quote pretty much sums up what was being discussed in this article. Women, who still feel like they need a man to support them, to keep them at ease, is what causes men to take over our powers, leaving them to be undiscovered. That allows us women to not share our differences with the world to make a change, because patriarchy over powers. Us women need to learn that survival is not an academic skill, we have to learn to stand alone regardless of the chatters, cause there will always be chatters, you learn to ignore. We need to start seeking the differences individually in us, so we could convert our differences to strengths. Not only making a difference for women to have their power recognized, but also for women of color and racist feminism. At one point Adrienne Rich stated, "White feminists have educated themselves about such an enormous amount over the past ten years, how come you haven't also educated yourselves about Black women and the difference between us--white and black--when it is key to survival as a movement?" "Women of today are still being called upon to stretch across the gap of male ignorance and to educate men as to our existence and our needs"(37). Again, why is it that we are not educating us women to women, to help make our differences truly matter, and it's only cause women are oppressed and too well focused more about the "master's concerns." Overall, Adrienne is trying to make a difference for women in the world, trying to seek the differences in many other women to bring it all as one, so that the political can shine the light on these differences to make a change.
