“As they are perhaps our most honest acknowledgment of an ongoing battle, we are all fighting, and we are allies in it,” she added. “Relying on each other not to hold back and stop advancing because we are facing a very huge opposing force that has tried, for centuries, to hold us back. If one of us retreats, we all retreat.”
But the 38-year-old is more determined to move on.
“No matter how much patriarchy depends on us to cut each other off in order to weaken our collective strength, we have to resist the urge to play by their self-serving rules,” mother of two, shares her children with ex Jason Sudeikis, pointed out. “Remind the world and specifically our girls that we are not easily manipulated…I feel energized by all of you, and I feel motivated to keep fighting in hell. In some ways, all challenges are part of it, right? True badges of honor, on par with the course.”
Originally published at San Jose News Bulletin
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