Raichō Hiratsuka 平塚らいてう

Hiratsuka Raichō – 1886-1971 – 元始、女性は太陽であった
“In the beginning, woman was the sun”
Writer, Journalist, Political Activist, Anarchist, and pinoneering feminist in Japan.
-I wonder how many woman have, for the sake of financial security in their lives, entered into loveless marriages to became one man’s lifelong servant and prostitute” from the essay she published 1913. She did many things, labeled as a “new woman”.