Knowing when to love - and when to walk away - is fiercely feminist. In this episode, a love story. My love affair at 20 years old with an 87 year old woman. Well, not your typical love affair! But one that opened thought and heart for me about how to love. Because this wasn't an ordinary love affair and she wasn't an ordinary person--she was a very imperfect and broken person with a very old fashioned mindset I didn't agree with. Yet, I loved her anyway. And then one day I walked away. The power of our love is a feminist practice when we use it right--which means letting it in and letting it change us as well as learning how to love from afar, when it's necessary. Because the truth is all of us find ourselves loving people who aren't perfect, or wanting to love people who aren't the most lovable. Can loving them help us become more fertile even if they don't hold our same values? Yes, it really can.

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