Well, you know, I was raised by a 1970s feminist. My mom had a consciousness-raising group. I used to sit at the top of the stairs and listen to them.
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I was raised by a hardcore feminist.
I am a feminist, although I always worry saying that because you then get people asking you about the 1970s.
I think it was really entering my 30s that I began to embrace feminism and call myself a feminist.
The feminists taught us about consciousness-raising.
Since I loved underground music, I tried to carve a space for feminism within it. Those were my hopes.
I was raised in a very activist household so that I grew up surrounded by people who were activists.
Now my mother, interestingly enough, was not a feminist in her own mind.
I wasn't an active feminist in the '60s, never have been.
Most days I struggle just to be accepted into the camp of plain old feminists. This is mainly because I am not by nature ideological and generally suspicious of people who are.
I had a terrible time with feminists in the Seventies. They hated me, those women. I think they hated everything.