The First Spark
The rise of feminism didn’t come from theory first.
It came from hunger, from fatigue, from silence breaking.
I think about women who couldn’t own property,
who weren’t allowed in universities,
who were told their lives existed for husbands, sons, and fathers.
They weren’t handed a microphone.
They built one.
Every “first” was seen as a scandal:
the first woman to vote,
the first to demand her own wages,
the first to publish a book that said: we are not secondary.
That beginning wasn’t polite.
It was noisy, inconvenient, disruptive.
And that is what made it a beginning.
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