"When I asked her whether younger women appreciate her lifelong fight enough, she just smiled mildly. "No, they don't. But I am not about to turn into somebody's grandmother who says, 'You don't know how good you have it, I had to walk six miles in the snow, only wearing socks!' Because that's not going to turn them on, that's lecturing at them. Instead, what I tell them is: 'You owe us nothing. And here is a dirty little secret: We didn't do it for you, we did it for ourselves.' "
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One cannot understate the importance of this comment.  The doers.  The Simone de Beauvoirs, Ayn Rands, Gloria Steinmans, and the Kate Millets- the leaders  in all facets of society setting concrete examples for those to follow, or not.  Achieving it as it will not be given, and never relinquishing until death.  The small or large personalized micro incremental steps to make it real for a woman in one's lifetime to avoid the frustration of the ongoing process of the macro feminist humanist concept.