Цитаты из книги Untamed

In most cultures, folks like Tish are identified early, set apart as shamans, medicine people, poets, and clergy. They are considered eccentric but critical to the survival of the group because they are able to hear things others don’t hear and see things others don’t see and feel things others don’t feel. The culture depends on the sensitivity of a few, because nothing can be healed if it’s not sensed first. But our society is so hell-bent on expansion, power, and efficiency at all costs that the folks like Tish—like me—are inconvenient. We slow the world down. We’re on the bow of the Titanic, pointing, crying out, “Iceberg! Iceberg!” while everyone else is below deck, yelling back, “We just want to keep dancing!” It is easier to call us broken and dismiss us than to consider that we are responding appropriately to a broken world.

The magic of heartbreak is that each person’s doorbell rings in response to something specific. What rings your bell? Is it racial injustice? Bullying? Animal cruelty? Hunger? War? The environment? Kids with cancer? What is it that affects you so deeply that whenever you encounter it, you feel the need to look away? Look there. Where is the pain in the world that you just cannot stand? Stand there. The thing that breaks your heart is the very thing you were born to help heal. Every world changer’s work begins with a broken heart.

Наши мужчины тоже живут в клетках. И чтобы поместиться в клетку, им приходится подавлять в себе все те проявления человеческой натуры, которые наша культура прозвала «женственными», например, милосердие, нежность, мягкость, спокойствие, доброту, смирение, неуверенность, сочувствие, привязанность.

Мы говорим им: «Вот так не надо, потому что это по-бабски. Делай что хочешь, только в бабу не превращайся».

Вот только проблема в том, что эти черты вовсе не женские, а просто человеческие. Да и самого понятия «женские черты» не существует, потому что на деле нет ни «женственности», ни «мужественности».