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What I Learned Is, We Have To Listen To Each Other, Even When We Don't Agree, Even When We Think We Hate Each Other. We Have To Listen To Each Others Narratives. Not Interrupt Defensively, Or With Hostility, But Really Try To Open Our Hearts And Listen With Empathy. I Learned So Much From That Meeting. It Was A Very Difficult Thing To Do And It Was One Of The Best Things That I Ever Did In My Life. Look What Scares You In The Face, And Try To Understand It. Empathy, I Have Learned, Is Revolutionary.

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What I Learned Is,

Jane Fonda

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What I Learned Is, We Have To Listen To Each Other, Even When We Don't Agree, Even When We Think We Hate Each Other. We Have To Listen To Each Others Narratives. Not Interrupt Defensively, Or With Hostility, But Really Try To Open Our Hearts And Listen With Empathy. I Learned So Much From That Meeting. It Was A Very Difficult Thing To Do And It Was One Of The Best Things That I Ever Did In My Life. Look What Scares You In The Face, And Try To Understand It. Empathy, I Have Learned, Is Revolutionary.

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Our Youth Deserve The Opportunity To Complete Their High School And College Education, Free Of Early Parenthood. Their Future Children Deserve The Opportunity To Grow Up In Financially And Emotionally Stable Homes. Our Communities Benefit From Healthy, Productive, Well-prepared Young People.

My Life Is A Stairway To Heaven, Not A 'decline Into Decrepitude.

Women Are Rising. It's Going To Get Harder Before It Gets Easier, But We Can Do It If We Realize That We Have The Power. Women Will Always Be The Leaders Of Change.

The Absolute Minimum For Effective Exercise Is Three Times A Week On Alternate Days For At Least Half An Hour.

To Make The Revolution In The United States Is A Slow Day By Day Job That Requires Patience And Discipline. It Is The Only Way To Make It. . . . All I Know Is That Despite The Fact That I Am One Of The People Who Benefit From A Capitalist Society, I Find That Any System Which Exploits Other People Cannot And Should Not Exist.

How Would You Like To Have A Father Who Keeps Getting Younger Looking Every Year? Do You Realize What That Can Do To A Woman?

I See Many More Men Who Are Feminist, Or At Least Who Have Learned About Life In The Context Of Feminism.

Don't Give Up. There Are Lessons To Be Learned Even In The Most Horrendous Pain. And You Don't Know That When You're Young.

A Big Mirror To Exercise In Front Of Is Essential.

Everyone Should Know That Feeling Of Overcoming Fear And Mastering Something. People Who Aren't Taught That Become Soggy.

When Women Have Reclaimed Their Voices And Men Reclaimed Their Hearts, We Won't Be Invading Countries, We Won't Be Feeling That We Have The Right To Launch Preemptive Wars.

I Love Films That Make You Feel Good When You Come Out And, In My Opinion, There's Not Enough Of Them These Days.

I Am Not A Do-gooder. I Am A Revolutionary. A Revolutionary Woman.

Consistency Can Be A Trap, Especially If It Leads To Being Consistently Wrong Rather Than To Stopping, Admitting Your Mistake, And Changing Course.

You Can Run The Office Without A Boss, But You Can't Run An Office Without Secretaries.

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