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Before I am your daughter, your sister, your aunt, niece, or cousin, I am my own person, and I will not set fire to myself to keep you warm.

Solidarity is not a matter of altruism. Solidarity comes from the inability to tolerate the affront to our own integrity of passive or active collaboration in the oppression of others, and from the deep recognition that, like it or not, our liberation is bound up with that of every other being on the planet, and that politically, spiritually, in our heart of hearts we know anything else is unaffordable.

Woman, you carry inside you stories about the wars your ancestors fought and the blood of the witches they burned at the stake. In your womb you cradle magic so powerful you bring life into this world. You may not be with child yet, but you are already pregnant. You are a mother to all the things you have learned, all the wisdom you have grown.

When we profess a vision of a world where a woman is not raped somewhere in the United States every three minutes, where one of every three female children do not experience sexual molestation, where the Mexican female is not the lowest paid worker in the United States– we are not male bashing or hating whites because overall they live a healthier life than we do, we are trying to change the facts of our conditions.

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We teach our sweet little girls to be liars and fakers from a young age: No, I’m not hungry. Wow, that feels great. No, I don’t blame you. Yes, I love you. No, I’m fine.

When we profess a vision of a world where a woman is not raped somewhere in the United States every three minutes, where one of every three female children do not experience sexual molestation, where the Mexican female is not the lowest paid worker in the United States– we are not male bashing or hating whites because overall they live a healthier life than we do, we are trying to change the facts of our conditions.