I have me brave women who are exploring the outer edge of human possibility, with no history to guide them, and with a courage to make themselves vulnerable that I find moving beyond words.
Gloria SteinemRead
Until the masculine role is humanized, women will tend to be much better at solving dangerous conflicts.
Interpretation
Women may have a more effective approach to resolving conflicts until traditional masculine traits evolve to be more humane.
Gloria Steinem's quote suggests that the current masculine role in society often emphasizes aggression and dominance, which may hinder effective conflict resolution. Until these traditional masculine traits are redefined and made more compassionate, women, who may innately prioritize understanding and collaboration, will often excel in navigating and resolving dangerous conflicts.
In practice
This quote can be used in a discussion about gender roles in conflict resolution during a workshop.
I have me brave women who are exploring the outer edge of human possibility, with no history to guide them, and with a courage to make themselves vulnerable that I find moving beyond words.
If women are supposed to be less rational and more emotional at the beginning of our menstrual cycle when the female hormone is at its lowest level, then why isn't it logical to say that, in those few days, women behave the most like the way men behave all month long?
Age brings a freedom. When you're young, you're much more subject to the idea of what feminine is or how you should look or how you should behave.
All those chemicals that create empathy only work when you are in a room together.
Dreaming, after all, is a form of planning.
Obviously, there is much similarity among the challenges of transgender people and all women - from health care to harassment to discrimination in the workplace.
Even though I have a nice house, nice family, the rest of my generation is still in South Central L.A. My cousins, my brothers, my sisters, they don't wanna move out. They don't want to and they don't have the means to sustain it. That's where my heart is and that's what I think about all the time.
Before I discovered the concept of the 5 love languages, a bit of advice I was given was to become a student of my wife and to take time to learn what makes her feel loved. I soon learned that what makes her feel loved may not always be the thing I want to do because it may not come natural to me. But learning to love her in the way that makes her feel loved is a greater demonstration of my love for her, because I've chosen to do it with a goal of pleasing her.
Although we are in different boats you in your boat and we in our canoe we share the same river of life.
Promising too much can be as cruel as caring too little.
But I remember one thing:_x000D_ _x000D_ it wasn't me that started acting deaf;_x000D_ _x000D_ it was people that first started acting like_x000D_ _x000D_ I was too dumb to hear or see or say anything at all
Flesh and blood needs flesh and blood, and you're the one I need
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