Rebecca Walker

American writer · United States · On the map · Writers · Born 1969 · age 56

Rebecca Walker is an American writer, feminist, and activist. Walker has been regarded as one of the prominent voices of Third Wave Feminism, and the coiner of the term "third wave", since publishing a 1992 article on feminism in Ms. magazine called "Becoming the Third Wave", in which she proclaimed: "I am the Third...

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2016BBC 100 WomenAward2013“I had too much power, I thought. I might consume him out of my own curiosity simply because I could. I could stay or go. He could not. He had too much power, I thought.”In their wordsAdé: A Love Story (2013)Read the whole statement

“What the heart desires is medicine to itself.”In their wordsAdé: A Love Story (2013)Read the whole statement

“You are my first love.” And then, “You will be my only love.”In their wordsAdé: A Love Story (2013)Read the whole statement

1969Born17 November 1969

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And then she said and I have Rebecca, you know? Sort of the idea is I was delightful, and she said I was delightful, but in the context you could see I was a calamity nonetheless.
On learning that she was considered a calamity to her mother’s creative spirit in “Rebecca Walker Explains Rift With Mother, Alice” in NPR, Own words

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Walker has been regarded as one of the prominent voices of Third Wave Feminism, and the coiner of the term "third wave", since publishing a 1992 article on feminism in Ms. magazine called "Becoming the Third Wave", in which she proclaimed: "I am the Third Wave."

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