Original artwork, not a still
Women’s rights is not only an abstraction, a cause; it is also a personal affair. It is not only about “us”; it is also about me and you. Just the two of us.
— Commencement address at Barnard College (May 1979)
Behind the line
What it means
Our interpretation.
The speaker says women's rights is not only a cause or abstraction but also a personal matter. It concerns not just a collective 'us' but individual relationships, between me and you, two people face to face, where the principle becomes something lived directly.
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