A sense of responsibility– or was it guilt?– hung over me, that I was in some way at fault because of cowering to all these pompous men all these years, when I should have had the bravery to reclaim my own mind. That if we women had done this years ago, before the last war, before this one, we’d be in a very different world.Anonymous
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I was angry at myself for cowering to these men; my father, my brothers, the men who had made promises that they did not keep. I felt that they had let me down. The only way to redeem myself was to take action, to use my own power to fight for what I knew was right. I would not be defined by these men; they were angry and angry people make mistakes. But angry people can still make good leaders.
Source: The Chilbury Ladies Choir
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