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"...he had already shoved me...and I thought 'Oh my god, that's all you have? That's it?' I started to laugh. I gave a yelling man so much power for so many years, and all of a sudden it was just unmasked for me. NO MAN WILL YELL AT ME AGAIN for I saw it for everything it is, a desperate measure. Years of being yelled at by my father just fell away.
"I tell women all the time, especially the young, fear is your enemy, you cannot let it stop you from doing things."
Abigail Disney
"Abigail Edna Disney is an American documentary film producer, philanthropist, and social activist. She produced the documentary Pray the Devil Back to Hell, and is the executive producer, writer, and director of The Armor of Light, which won an Emmy Award for Outstanding Social Issue Documentary."
I embrace our younger generation of women who are standing up to the oppression we felt we had to endure to survive. I applaud their efforts and successes but I feel a little guilty reaping the rewards for what I should have done myself years ago. I would have avoided years of pain and suffering had I stood up to my abuser then.