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“I’m a feminist because everything I have (my rights, my education, my home, my safety) I owe to the women who fought before me. I did not get these rights because men had an attack of consciousness. For my daughter and every girl around the world, I stand on their shoulders, fighting on. I will do so until my last day.” 

“I’ve always been a feminist,” Kelly says. “You can’t have a bossy big brother and not grow up to be a feminist.” A lecturer in the Women’s and Gender Studies Department at the University of North Carolina-Charlotte, when she’s not teaching, she’s with her 7-year-old FIT (“feminist-in-training”), her daughter Grace.