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

For one thing, I teach my students what my teacher for twenty years, Paul Gavert, told me, 'The voice follows... the voice follows everything about you... who you are.

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.

Our stories are different; our pain is the same.

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.

We cant compare stories. We can only know in our hearts that we are the same. That may be the best we can do.