All of our great traditions, religious, contemplative and artistic, say that you must a learn how to be alone – and have a relationship with silence. It is difficult, but it can start with just the tiniest quiet moment.
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There is one thing you have got to learn about our movement. Three people are better than no people.
Elite athletes learn entitlement. They believe they are entitled to have women serve their needs. It’s part of being a man. It’s the cultural construction of masculinity.
The first problem for all of us, men and women, is not to learn, but to unlearn.
Learn poetry by heart. If you know a poem by heart, no one can take it away from you, and you can take advantage of it anytime.
Learn from the masses, and then teach them.
Kids: they dance before they learn there is anything that isn’t music.
It is impossible to begin to learn that which one thinks one already knows.
Four of my children are daughters, and I’ve watched them devote themselves to reading books about how little girls learn to become women – how they learn to deal with boys and men, and the different hurdles females have to go over.
From one learn all.