And she said, “There is always something to do. “How do you keep from being discouraged?” they asked. She was so apparently happy, after a lifetime in the feminist trenches. When she spoke, she reflected on all that women had achieved and all that still remained to be done, and when she was asked what made her angry, she said, laughing: “So many things!” People were puzzled. She appears completely at peace with her life and work. She laughs a lot – a great booming laugh – and she swears frequently and cheerfully. She is in her eighties, and a glowing, vibrant, magnetic spirit. So I need to stay angry, and keep working. And that means that while I desire love and approval, I don’t need them for my survival. I’m middle-aged, and I’ve had my kids, and I work for myself, and I own my own home. I am infinitely less interested in whether or not my anger makes people (men) uncomfortable. On the upside, I care less about the backlash. Which makes me even angrier than I was back then. The last time I was this angry, I was in university, and it was twenty-five years ago, and it was about … well, it was about all of the same things that I’m angry about now. But it’s a new year, and this is no time for paralysis. Eventually, I fell into a kind of paralysis.
I kept trying to write you a letter, and then life and the news cycle would overtake it before I could finish it.
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