Amy Richards Quotes
The goal of equality seems to disproportionately burden women, since it's assumed that they have to assume more responsibility, while men can remain the status quo.
![Amy Richards Quotes: "[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."](https://www.quoteslyfe.com/images/collection3/quotations365/T-he-presence-of-feminism-in-our-365221.jpg)
[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.
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.
Our world loses out when the leadership doesn't reflect the led - when a minority makes decisions for the majority.
As much as younger women are infused with a greater sense of possibility than most women of preceding generations, as a generation we are generally politically disengaged.
Women have to do all of the catching up. So we are disengaged and overburdened. Sounds like it is time we ditch the complacent fluoride-in-the-tap-water feminism and get reenergized and reinspired.
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.
I'm motivated by injustice, which is embedded and constant and wrong - not by a vernacular soundboard.
