Women's Voices For Change

Flaws are inimical to perfection, of course, and yet when you love someone, it is not in spite of their flaws. You accept and even cherish your loved one’s less perfect features, even though you have trouble extending that same attitude to yourself.

There comes a time, though, when old habits and patterns are obsolete, or when circumstances change enough so that they don’t work the way they used to.

'She Said' by The New York Times reporters Jodi Kantor and Megan Twohey, uses the Harvey Weinstein case as its basis, but its subject is far larger. It is about fear, regret, intimidation, and courage. Above all, it is about the power of journalism.

If you don’t have a well-internalized sense of self-worth it is like lacking a steady pilot light—you always need to be lit by something external or someone else.

We fear old, buried feelings and fear their power. In this way, they are vampire-like in that the best way to defeat them is to expose them to the light.

Of the many hazards of lack of self-love, among the most serious, is behavior that harms you.