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If you could have dinner with any philosopher, who would it be?
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If I Could Have Dinner With Any Philosophers

Thinking about Run the World (Girls) and its message—“Who run the world? Girls.”—
I realized something:

If I’m hosting dinner,
I’m not choosing just one philosopher.

I want a table filled with brilliant women.
Different eras.
Different experiences.
Different perspectives.

A room where wisdom, resilience, intellect, and truth
all sit side by side.

First, I would invite Angela Davis.

A woman whose life speaks of activism, justice, courage, and unapologetic truth.

She would bring conversations about liberation, race, equality, and the responsibility women have to continue challenging systems that were never designed for us to thrive in.

Then, I would invite Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz.

A woman far ahead of her time.

Intellectual.
Fearless.
A voice for women’s education and the right for women to think, learn, and exist beyond limitation.

I imagine she would speak with both softness and fire.

And finally, Martha Nussbaum.

A thinker deeply rooted in human dignity, ethics, compassion, and what it truly means for people to flourish.

She would probably challenge the table in quiet but profound ways.

I believe each of these women
offers a broad perspective on women’s rights, identity, and humanity itself.

But more than that…

I think dinner with them would feel empowering.

Not loud for the sake of being heard—
but intentional.

A conversation where women speak honestly about power, intellect, faith, justice, freedom, vulnerability, and what it means to exist fully in a world that often tries to define us before we define ourselves.

And honestly…

I don’t think I would spend most of the evening talking.

I’d listen.

Because there is something sacred
about sitting at a table with women
who refused to let the world silence them.

Closing Line

Some dinners feed the body.
Others feed the mind, the spirit, and the generations that come after us.