Like many feminists, my first encounter with the concept was met with denial, confusion and benightedness. The driving force of this attitude was well rooted in the “it’s easier to fight against what you don’t really understand “. I only have the excuse of youth and a context in which talking about feminism was a bit out of place and seen as unappropriate. I was very involved in creating a community of educated, informed women (I was the editor-in-chief of AVANTAJE Magazine) and it seemed to me that the femininity I was promoting in the first glossy women’s magazine had little to do with feminism. The bottom line is that the editorial board of the publication promoted the values of feminism, but I was not aware of that. At one point, in 2001, a famous Romanian journalist, Marius Tucă, asked me on a TV show if I was a feminist, and I said, “No, no! I am feminine! ” It seemed to me that if I said I was a feminist, they would think I was some of the weird hysterical and outraged feminist. It was a discussion about women’s magazines and the fact that we only promote physical beauty, without any intellectual coverage. None of the guests declared themselves feminist. It was a kind of collective dissent. Thinking about it now, the recall of that moment gives shiveres of embarrassement for my past declared ignorance. Fortunately, all the personal development steps taken were of great support in overcaming this ignorance and three years after that awkward moment, after meeting Mihaela Miroiu, who enlightened my mind and heart and made me understand the meaning and purpose of feminism, confirming that I was somehow, in the subconscious, I have finally found myself on the right track. Now, 20 years after, I realize what tremendous progress has been made in understanding feminism and I want to share it with you – women, young girls, but also open-minded men who value women and want a better future for their daughters or partners. Because a better world for women is a better world for all.