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| 7240f03 | When we first begin to take power more directly, after long having kept our relationship to it underground...it is natural that we experience anxiety, even guilt, at putting ourselves first. These feeling let us know we are taking action; they do not need to stop us. | assertiveness child-sexual-abuse-survivor false-guilt empowering healing-insights healing anxiety power guilt survivors | Maureen Brady | |
| a00bccf | Lilies used to be a movie theatre, before. Students went there a lot; every spring they had a Humphrey Bogart festival, with Lauren Bacall or Katherine Hepburn, women on their own, making up their minds. They wore blouses with buttons down the front that suggested the possibilities of the word 'undone'. These women could not be undone; or not. They seemed to be able to choose. | women empowering handmaid-s-tale undone | Margaret Atwood |