We need a feminist account of such techniques of redirection.

Alienation is studious; you learn more about wishes when they are not what you wish for.

we have to make sense of what does not make sense.

When did the sound of the word feminism become your sound?

When you speak as a feminist, you have to deal with strong reactions. To be committed to a feminist life might require being willing to elicit those reactions.

Feminism can allow you to reinhabit not only your own past but also your own body.

But feminist theory does not start there. Feminist theory might even be what gets you there.

if we start with our experiences of becoming feminists not only might we have another way of generating feminist ideas, but we might generate new ideas about feminism.

Feminism is treated as a removal from the world rather than engagement