I was just talking about women, just in terms of understanding them as much as we can ever understand the opposite sex. I'm trying to let go of certain male approaches to things that you inherit, that you grow up with.
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Women are so many things. We're sisters, mothers, wives. There are so many things we encompass.
I think at this stage in my life I have learned that there are any number of things that men will never know, and can never hope to know, about women.
We as women, we have to understand that we know more, just even instinctively, than we think we do.
I can honestly say that I understand women very well. If you understand yourself, you understand women, because, in the end, all women are the same.
We understood, growing up - 'cause it was taught in our family home, my mom and dad - to respect women, for instance. To respect yourself. That you respect your name. Those are the kind of things we were taught.
When I was born, there was a very isolated idea of what it meant to be a man or a woman, and you belonged to one gender or the other.
I don't believe for a minute that women really want to be understood by men.
One of the best ways of understanding human nature is to study children. After all, if we want understand who we are, we should find out how we got to be that way.
As parents, we're human beings, too, but sometimes we're not as understanding as we'd like to be.
We are people, individuals comprising a variety of sexes, races, shifting sexualities and all the rest of it. Every convention that tries to reinforce this difference is a step back. Notions of gender pointlessly separate men from women, but also mothers from daughters and fathers from sons.
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