Let's stop 'tolerating' or 'accepting' difference, as if we're so much better for not being different in the first place. Instead, let's celebrate difference, because in this world it takes a lot of guts to be different.
Interpretation
Embracing differences is essential for personal and societal growth, rather than simply tolerating them.
Kate Bornstein's quote emphasizes the importance of not just accepting or tolerating differences among individuals, but actively celebrating them. In a world where conformity is often favored, recognizing the courage it takes to be different can foster a more inclusive and vibrant society, ultimately contributing to our collective growth and understanding.
In practice
In a speech promoting diversity at a workplace event.
I know I'm not a man-about that much I'm very clear, and I've come to the conclusion that I'm probably not a woman either, at least not according to a lot of people's rules on this sort of thing. The trouble is, we're living in a world that insists we be one or the other-a world that doesn't bother to tell us exactly what one or the other is.
…gender is not sane. It's not sane to call a rainbow black and white.
There's a simple way to look at gender: Once upon a time, someone drew a line in the sans of culture and proclaimed with great self-importance, 'On this site, you are a man; on the other side, you are a woman.' It's time for the winds of change to blow that line away. Simple.
The most notable thing about Time is that it is so purely relative. A large amount of reminiscence is, by common consent, conceded to the drowning man; and it is not past belief that one may review an entire courtship while removing one's gloves.
Let no one mistake it for comedy, farcical though it may be in all its details. It serves notice on the country that Neanderthal man is organizing in these forlorn backwaters of the land, led by a fanatic, rid of sense and devoid of conscience.
My thought, whose murder yet is but fantastical, Shakes so my single state of man That function is smothered in surmise, And nothing is but what is not.
Our science, so called, is always more barren and mixed with error than our sympathies.
We forget all too soon the things we thought we could never forget.
But the big feature of human-level intelligence is not what it does when it is works but what it does when it's stuck.
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