It's just a little ranch. Thirty-five acres. In Texas, if it's not a thousand acres, it's considered a ranchette.

As you get older, your voice changes, as well. Your voice should be able to last as long as you last.

I was hugely relieved to discover there was a purpose for girls with loud voices.

So, when the discussion about not using the term feminist came up at a conference workshop, I couldn't believe it. The more I listened, the more I felt the need to express my passion about my identity as a feminist.

It was critical to finding a way out. I had assumed young women knew the history of feminism and must have felt gratitude to the movement for the opportunities that the work we have done has afforded them.

If we're for one another, we're feminists. The rest is semantics.

The pure connecting factor is that those of us who describe ourselves as feminists want equal rights for all people.