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• "we've come pretty far from type writing school"
• "women in 2007 still struggle with the same push/pull between being paired and unpaired and the subsequent rewards and sacrifices each choice entails"
• "We all think things that we feel we can't say. We all feel conflicted as to whether we should act the way we like, or the way that society tells us we should be acting."
• "forced to choose between her personal, immediate happiness and her beliefs"
• "everything will be resolved in thirty years"

Yep, we've come a long way. And some things haven't been resolved. Maybe that's the point? What has changed and what hasn't? And what there is to learn, not only about feminism but about life in general, from that? Maybe tensions between being connected and not being connected, between what we feel and what we feel we can say, between the immediate and the long term aren't going to be resolved by feminism, or any other ism? Maybe such tensions are what allow us to become disatisfied with ourselves and the worlds we find ourselves in and so act to create new selves/worlds, less wrong than the ones we started with but themselves yet to be tested? If so, its nice to know we will always continue to have the wherewithal to experience tensions.

Sure, one can and should try and change oneself and the world, and then ... "we'll see".