I Want People To Understand

I Was Born In 1954. My Parents Were Brought Up In The War Years, And Life Was Hard.

The Inner World Is Very Potent For Me - I Don't Ascribe To Any God Or Jesus Or Buddha - I Just Have A Sense Of It And Revere It Along With The Natural World And Human Consciousness.

There Are So Many Things That We Could Do To Change The World In So Many Aspects. There Are People Working In Nonprofit Organizations, Tackling The Issues That We So Desperately Need To Face, While Governments Fail So Appallingly.

I Identify With Other Women Because Of My Gender, And I Identify With Other Women If They Are Mothers Because I'm A Mother, Too. It's Very Simple. It's Nothing Complicated, It's Not Rocket Science. It's About Empathy. It's About Understanding That What Happens With One Person Is Potentially What Happens To You, And Seeing Yourself In Someone Else's Shoes. Fundamentally, We Are All In The Same Place: We're Born, We Live, And We're Going To Die. In Between, We'll Have Joy And We'll Have Sadness.

Our Ancestors Are Totally Essential To Our Every Waking Moment, Although Most Of Us Don't Even Have The Faintest Idea About Their Lives, Their Trials, Their Hardships Or Challenges.