We, all of us, are awakening to the reality that how men have behaved toward women for eons is not OK. The rules are changing invisibly underneath our feet. I am playing catch up. Maybe we all are.
Interpretation
This quote highlights the evolving awareness about gender behavior and the need for societal change regarding how men treat women.
Richard Dreyfuss emphasizes the collective awakening to the historical mistreatment of women by men and acknowledges that societal norms are shifting. He recognizes that many, including himself, may feel unprepared or behind in adapting to these changes, suggesting a shared journey towards a more equitable understanding of gender dynamics.
In practice
This quote could be used as part of a speech at an International Women's Day event to highlight ongoing societal changes.
I love the ideals of my country. But I hate that we've been so denied any real knowledge of the world and don't have the education to think clearly, so we vote against our economic interest and believe in our most shallow first thoughts of fear and hatred.
People say to you, 'you've changed', or something like that, well, I hope, for the sake of God, that you have changed, because I don't want to be the same person all my life. I want to be growing, I want to be expanding. I want to be changing. Because animate things change, inanimate things don&'t change. Dead things don't change. And the heart should be alive, it should be changing, it should be moving, it should be growing, its knowledge should be expanding.
When the fabric of society is so rigid that it cannot change quickly enough, adjustments are achieved by social unrest and revolutions.
The job of a social entrepreneur is to recognize when a part of society is stuck & to provide new ways to get it unstuck.
We have to overcome the practice of male domination - even though it's changing, and changing in Liberia quite drastically.
To change skins, evolve into new cycles, I feel one has to learn to discard. If one changes internally one should not continue to live with the same objects. They reflect one's mind and psyche of yesterday. I throw away what has no dynamic, living use.
Humanity has experienced many revolutionary changes over the course of history: revolutions in agriculture, in science, industrial production, as well as numerous political revolutions. But these have all been limited to the external aspects of our individual and collective lives.
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