NYMA:
Mother Always Said
My five-year-old daughter makes invitations all the time. She gets pens and paper and markers, envelopes and stickers, and sets to work. She makes invitations to parties that she and her friends pretend to have; she gives them their envelopes and they giggle and run around and play; they are content because they have received invitations and those invitations mean friendship, and conversation, and connection.
Where do we lose that?
“But above all, they thought of women as ‘we.’ They loved and respected one another, sharing and admitting one another to their fates. They learned that women cannot be alone, identified only with the men at hand. They learned that wherever they are ... there must be other women with them as peers.” (Carolyn Heilbrun, 1998, p. 72)
Friday, June 18, 2010
Making Change
