If women were to truly access her power—the type of power that, like gravity, moves the world around it instead of using force or the push and pull of being in reaction or response to everything—what would she look like? What would the world look like?
A woman’s liberation, and the path to it, involves not engaging with, fighting, or wasting energy on a system that is ineffective for all, including the powers that be. Instead, it is in building a new order that makes the current one so clearly obsolete. And, not in spite of anyone.
A woman’s power, when it is true power, knows there is no one against her.
To operate as if there is anyone or anything to fight is the old paradigm — a paradigm that prevents her from doing the real work of liberation that is at hand.
The real work is to remove, define, and build.
Remove the old ideas.
Define the new.
Build accordingly.