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I think of my gender as a part of my complex humanity.

I AM what is called a Feminist. Thirty years ago I left a monastery and began a sane human existence. Within two or three years, I find, I was defending the rights of women.

I still consider myself a feminist.

I never felt oppressed because of my gender. When I'm writing a poem or drawing, I'm not a female; I'm an artist.

When I was born, there was a very isolated idea of what it meant to be a man or a woman, and you belonged to one gender or the other.

I think I've claimed the right to be any version of me that I want to be.

I don't think in a male or female way. I don't differentiate between male and female. I never have. I'm not considered a feminist.

I believe all men, all women, regardless of race, gender, socioeconomic background, you deserve the same rights.

I'm a child of the Women's Movement. I always believed that I could do anything. That women didn't have to be limited in any way.