Men can be just as loving and nurturing as women – it’s a libel on men to say they can’t – but we all learn by example. Boys just need nurturing men in their lives so they know it’s okay for them to be nurturing.
There is a healthier self within each of us, just wating for encouragement.
Change seems recognizable only after it’s happened, like putting one’s foot down for a familiar stair – and it’s not there.
The media are not reality; reality is reality.
Pound for pound, she was stronger than Arnold Schwarzenegger.
I took a part-time editing job to pay the rent. It was work I could do at home, but when suddenly I was expected to spend two days a week in the office, I quit, bought an ice cream cone, and walked the sunny streets of Manhattan.
Despite all their faults, campaigns are based on the fact that every vote counts, and therefore every person counts. As freestanding societies, they are more open than academia, more idealistic than corporations, more unifying than religions, and more accessible than government itself.
I began to sense that a big part of our problem is simple ignorance of what the oldest cultures have to teach.
Her hope was to preserve what she called The Way, to keep it alive, for that future moment when the current obsession with excess and hierarchy imploded. Wilma said many Native people believed that the earth as a living organism would just one day shrug off the human species that was destroying it – and start over. In a less cataclysmic vision, humans would realize that we are killing our home and each other, and seek out The Way. That’s why Native people were guarding it.
Roots can exist without flowers, but no flower can exist without roots. Religion may be a flower, but people are its roots.
Our current plight is not made inevitable by human nature. What once was could be again – in a new way.
Campaign season is the only time of public debate about what we want for the future. It can change consciousness even more than who gets elected. In short, campaigns may be the closest thing we have to democracy itself.
The irony here is that thanks to molecular archaeology – which includes the study of ancient DNA to trace human movement over time – we now know that men have been the stay-at-homes, and women have been the travelers. The rate of intercontinental migration for women is about eight times that for men.
I myself cried when I got angry, then became unable to explain why I was angry in the first place. Later I would discover this was endemic among female human beings. Anger is supposed to be “unfeminine”, so we suppress it-until it overflows.
Among their first questions was said to be: Where are the women?
It’s time to leave. There is so much out there to do and say and listen to. I can go on the road, because I can come home. I come home, because I am free to leave.
I’m not black on Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday, and a woman on Thursday, Friday and Saturday.
Everyone has a home but me.
In pre-Watergate, pre-sexual revolution times, such stories just weren’t written.
It’s even possible that Marilyn was found still breathing, rushed to Santa Monica Hospital by ambulance in an effort to save her, and returned to her own bed only after she was dead. There is some testimony to this on the part of ambulance drivers from a company that had transported Marilyn before. Anthony Summers reports the possibility that her unsuccessful rescuers could have been Robert Kennedy, or Peter Lawford, or both, responding in alarm to a last slurred phone call from Marilyn.