Not everyone finds it easy to say what they feel, or even know what they feel. Familiarity with emotion helps us understand the true value of anger as a force for change in the face of so much injustice in the world, it emboldens us to be honest with those
This book spoke to me because I often tripped myself up, veering between speaking up too forcefully and not speaking up at all. I’d go so far as to say that in some ways the book helped me to become editor of Cosmo three years later. Linda Kelsey for
Dickson argues that awareness and action are not the same thing. “It is easier to recognise inequality, to be aware of it, than it is to know how to change our behaviour,” she tells me. “We simply don’t know how to alter our speech or approach, so again the