What I learned from getting arrested with Jane Fonda

Alexandra Charitan
Nov 6 · 10 min read

Like so many women, I grew up internalizing other people’s perceptions and opinions of what it meant to be me. Whatever the world decided it thought of me quickly became what I thought of myself — Allie is shy, Allie is a bookworm, Allie does what she’s told and doesn’t rock the boat. And for a long time, that seemed true. I’m a textbook introvert and small talk has never come easily. I’m usually…

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I like dachshunds in hot dog costumes and things that are bigger or smaller than they should be.

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