Teen author Louise O’Neill was 15 when she first used the F-word and called herself a feminist – but didn’t understand what it meant and remained ashamed of the parts of herself that were female, here’s her story and why she wrote Only Ever Yours
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I was 15 when I first used the F-word. It’s difficult now, when the biggest female popstars in the world proudly call themselves feminists, to explain how alone that made me feel. I didn’t have an online community such as Rookie or Jezebel or xoJane to reassure me that there were other girls out there who felt the same as I did; all I had was a tattered copy of The Handmaid’s Tale by Margaret Atwood and Hole’s Live Through This, and I held them close to my heart like a talisman.
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