Heartbreak: The Political Memoir of a Feminist Militant

People deal with hideous events in different ways, and one way is to forget them.

One wants to believe that poverty can be cured by wealth, cruelty by kindness; but neither is true. The orphan is always an orphan.

Memory became political on the global scale when Holocaust survivors had to remember in order to testify against Nazi war criminals. It had always been political to articulate a crime that had happened to one and name the criminal, but that had been on a small scale