I’m not sure we can understand another country if we don’t understand our own.
I recommend trying this kind of grassroots organizing for a week or a year, a month or a lifetime – working for whatever change you want to see in the world. Then one day you will be talking to a stranger who has no idea you played any part in the victory she or he is celebrating.
The problem for all women is we’re identified by how we look, instead of by our heads and hearts.
If you do anything people care about, people will take care of you.
Beware of any motto that glorifies the past. It’s code for restoring hierarchy. For example: “Make America great again.
I can go on the road – because I can come home. I come home – because I’m free to leave. Each way of being is more valued in the presence of the other. This balance between making camp and following the seasons is both very ancient and very new. We all need both.
When the past dies, we mourn for the dead. When the future dies, we mourn for ourselves.
If I could, I would leave an open space for your story on every page.
I also thought suddenly of the wisdom of my speaking partner, the late generous, outrageous, matchless Flo Kennedy. She found value in conflict, no matter what. “The purpose of ass-kicking is not that your ass gets kicked at the right time or for the right reason,” she often explained. “It’s to keep your ass sensitive. ” Remembering her words made me laugh out loud.
The purpose of ass-kicking is not that your ass gets kicked at the right time or for the right reason,” she often explained. “It’s to keep your ass sensitive.
As Zapata rides to his destiny, his wife hangs on to his boot, dragging in the dust, imploring him to stay home. Since I couldn’t yet admit to myself that I was more interested in going to sea and the revolution than in staying home as the mother or the wife, I just vowed silently that I would never become an obstacle to any man’s freedom.
Nearly all of the journalistic eulogies that followed Monroe’s death were written by men. So are almost all of the more than forty books that have been published about Monroe.
What we’re told about this country is way too limited by generalities, sound bites, and even the supposedly enlightened idea that there are two sides to every question. In fact, many questions have three or seven or a dozen sides. Sometimes I think the only real division into two is between people who divide everything into two, and those who don’t.
After all, hope is a form of planning. If our hopes weren’t already real within us, we couldn’t even hope them.
In the same way that individual women are often underestimated, a movement of women is also understimated, but the truth is that, if people realize someone is willing to talk about these deep and daily concerns, they show up.
Statistically speaking, home is an even more dangerous place for women than the road.
The idea that women are ‘our own worst enemies’ forces us to admit that we don’t have the power to be, even if we wanted too.
All movements need a few people who can’t be fired.
Reading in the car was so much my personal journey that when my mother urged me to put down my book and look out the window, I would protest, “But I just looked an hour ago!
Rhyming in itself is magic.