“Looking at Barbados and Australia as relatively positive examples, one societal hallmark of self-esteem seems to be an ability to both give and demand fairness, an expectation that extends from the personal to the political.”
― Revolution from Within: A Book of Self-Esteem
― Revolution from Within: A Book of Self-Esteem
“As I write this, there are mainstream educators trying to discredit efforts to diversify the academic canon by giving them the dreaded label “politically correct”—now known familiarly on campus as “P.C.” (which, as Robin Morgan has pointed out, might well stand for “Plain Courtesy”)—as if centuries of exclusion had not been the height (or depth) of politics.”
― Revolution from Within: A Book of Self-Esteem
― Revolution from Within: A Book of Self-Esteem
“Because we tend to treat others as we have been treated, a trustworthy system leads to more trust, corruption leads to more corruption, violence to more violence.”
― Revolution from Within: A Book of Self-Esteem
― Revolution from Within: A Book of Self-Esteem
“if girls were raised a little more like boys—if they had more right to say no, to declare boundaries, to develop a strong personal identity, to be angry, to rebel—they would be less likely to be revictimized as adults.”
― Revolution from Within: A Book of Self-Esteem
― Revolution from Within: A Book of Self-Esteem
“No wonder the romance of Wuthering Heights endures—as do romantic myths in almost every culture. Indeed, the more patriarchal and gender-polarized a culture is, the more addicted to romance. These myths embody our yearning to be whole. No wonder romance so often begins at a physical distance or across a psychic chasm of class and race,* and thrives on death and separation. Projecting our lost qualities onto someone else can be done more easily from a distance.”
― Revolution from Within: A Book of Self-Esteem
― Revolution from Within: A Book of Self-Esteem
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