.MonicaLewinsky takes stock of women's acts of reclamation throughout the decade
It was the Night Before. I had already jumped off the high dive, but I wouldn’t break water until morning.
Keenly aware of my innermost fears and mounting anxieties, my best friend in New York, one of only a handful of people who had known about the essay, had given me a card. Opening it, I read this quote from Anaïs Nin: The following day, and throughout the second half of this decade, my life—and my narrative—began to change, to become mine, once again.
Yes, as women have made these recent advances, there has been the inevitable, rabid backlash. But something big has shifted. The web and social media have been a factor. For all their malevolence, they’ve created online communities and served as springboards for many women who felt marginalized.
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