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Quote of the Week

“The real heart of helping others is to be able to accept their feelings and emotions without running away or imposing our own prejudices. You don’t need to agree with what a person is feeling. You just need to ackowlegde it.” Jane Hope, The Meditation Year.

Quote of the week – Tyranny of Nice

“The tyranny of nice and kind — the demand that girls act perfectly nice and accommodating — is oppressive to girls and wreaks havoc with their relationships. Such expectations require girls to push everything else they feel and think, especially anger, underground or out of public view. This creates fertile soil for those forms

Quote of the week

“What is most beautiful in virile men is something feminine; what is most beautiful in virile women is something masculine.” Susan Sontag

Quote of the week

“Being human is all about making mistakes and being imperfect. What’s important about making friends with yourself is that when you accept your imperfections you no longer have the need to judge other people harshly.” Jane Hope, Meditations

Street Harassment Fuels a Viral Documentary

Great story. Here is an excerpt: “One day, during a typical 15-minute walk from her office to her apartment in the center of Brussels, 25-year-old graduate film student Sofie Peeters was harassed 11 times.To channel her frustration with her inability to commute in peace, she produced a short documentary for her final school project called Femme de la

Quote of the week

“Don’t ask what the world needs. Ask what makes you come alive, and go do it. Because what the world needs is people who have come alive. ” Howard Thurman, theologian.

NBC Video of Female Athletes shows Sexism

Unfortunately, a video NBC created and posted on the web during the Olympics suggests sexism again. Here is an excerpt of an article on it: “ The video, titled “Bodies In Motion,” depicts select female Olympic athletes in slow motion. The first two shots are of one woman taking off her shorts and another