Reinventing Womanhood

Men have monopolized human experience leaving women unable to imagine themselves as both ambitious and female. If I imagine myself (woman has always asked) whole active a self will I not cease in some profound way to be a woman? The answer must be: imagine and the old idea of womanhood be damned. . . . Let us imagine ourselves as selves as at once striving and female. Womanhood can be what we say it is not what they have always told us it was.