Thoughtful, energetic, smart, determined. I tried to own and further those qualities and often mustered them up when they were dormant and something wasn't going my way.

[T]he presence of feminism in our lives is taken for granted. For our generation, feminism is like fluoride. We scarcely notice we have it - it's simply in the water.

Our world loses out when the leadership doesn't reflect the led - when a minority makes decisions for the majority.

In college, a group of guys labelled me a "righteous little beaver." Again, I was slightly pissed because it seemed offensive and misdirected, but when I learned that beavers swim upstream, I realized that maybe it was fitting after all.

World change comes from within.

The truth is that our democracy is a work in progress. We are all its founders. We are all learning that we are linked and not ranked.

We are linked and not ranked. Ever butty is equal, everyone is the same.