think on this.

"We seem to be special women here, we have liked to think of ourselves as special… An important insight of the radical women’s movement has been how divisive and ultimately destructive is this myth of the special woman, who is also the token woman. Every one of us here in this room has had great luck – we are teachers, writers, academicians; our own gifts could not have been enough, for we all know women whose gifts are buried or aborted. Our struggles can have meaning and our privileges – however precarious under patriarchy – can be justified only if they can help to change the lives of women whose gifts – and whose very being – continues to be thwarted and silenced."