Decided to start the year with a book that I've been trying to read the year before but then the exam session kicked in so I had to drop it. It's terrifying so far, claustrophobic. I'm in love with the illustrations scattered through it though.
Some people ask, 'Why the word feminist? Why not just say you are a believer in human rights, or something like that?' Because that would be dishonest. Feminism is, of course, part of human rights in general - but to choose to use the vague expression human rights is to deny the specific and particular problem of gender. It would be a way of pretending that it was not women who have, for centuries, been excluded.
