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Rebecca Walker

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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.

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Rebecca Walker
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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

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Rebecca Walker
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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.

Adé: A Love Story (2013)

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Rebecca Walker
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What the heart desires is medicine to itself.

Adé: A Love Story (2013)

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2016BBC 100 Women

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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 Wave."

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Born 1969 · age 56
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