Beatrix

“We perfect most dangerously our children. They’re hardwired for struggle when they get here. When you hold those perfect little babies in your hand, your job is not to say ‘look at her, she’s perfect, my job is to keep her perfect, make sure she makes the tennis team by fifth grade and yale by seventh grade’ that’s not our job, our job is to look and say ‘you know what, you’re imperfect, and you’re wired for struggle, but you’re worthy of love and belonging’ that’s our job.”

She says that feeling worthy is the difference between allowing yourself to be vulnerable to others and not, that allowing yourself to be vulnerable is associated with feeling both pain and joy, and that numbing your vulnerability in turn numbs your pain but also your joy.

Be vulnerable.

Eve Ensler is a genius. This video is my heart. Gender is just an idea, and everyone has emotions- the same emotions.

On stopping violence towards women- I just called in a domestic violence case, and got a man arrested. One day at a time, one person at a time, it must stop.