She said: "It was just like coming home after all these years. San Francisco had always been my spiritual home anyway, but it had been a long time since I even visited. Life just went on without me being there or even, that much, thinking about the "good old days". That was way before all of the changes: women were "chicks" and we cooked and made the babies and life possible. We took care of the babies. We were the ones that held jobs because we didn't have to shave our faces. Remember when shaving our legs was a big deal Political Statement? What a laugh! Gee, it was fun, though, to be a woman and to have that freedom and not be put away into some box that the men made for us. We felt powerful and we were powerful. Most of the crazy stuff that went on in the culture then just didn't matter that much in the long run, but the becoming of a woman, a creature built powerfully and with purpose and who spoke in her own voice, now that was worth everything!"

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