Zadie Smith

I find it painful, though, and I don't want to engage in internecine feminist warfare ever because I just think it's pointless.

Like I see I have a daughter, of course.

And, you know, I guess I have ideas about how I dress, how I present myself.

I'm sure they're not hers.

My daughter would say I'm very judgmental.

I know I am.

I come from a judgmental school of feminism passed down from my mother.

Like I still never have never written the word Mrs. on any document in my life.

Mrs. burned into my brain since I was about five years old.

So I'm aware, but again, with all these things, I try to say to myself, I am the way I am because of the way I was raised, because of the ideas I was raised around.

Okay.

Once I know that, then I know it's relational.

Like, that's me.

It doesn't have to be everybody.

But, you know, of course, within any movement, it's easy to get wound up by different approaches.

Sometimes, I guess, as you get older, you do see people reinventing the wheel.

You know, like I've just noticed

some younger feminists now saying for the first time in a while, oh, yeah, maybe, you know, having loads of plastic surgery isn't the most feminist thing in the world.

Well...

Yeah, babe.