A part of a healthy conscience is being able to confront consciencelessness. When you teach your daughter, explicitly or by passive rejection, that she must ignore her outrage, that she must be kind and accepting to the point of not defending herself or other people, that she must not rock the boat for any reason, you are NOT strengthening her prosocial sense, you are damaging it--and the first person she will stop protecting is herself.
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MARTHA QUINN Think of the magic of that foot, comparatively small, upon which your whole weight rests. It's a... MARTHA GRAHAM Many of us have spent a lifetime trying to be what we're not, feeling lousy about ourselves when... MARTHA BECK Cheerfully fessing up to our failures turns crazy mind off, humility and compassion on. I learned th... MARTHA BECK I love the challenge of starting at zero every day and seeing how much I can accomplish. MARTHA STEWART Every dance is a kind of fever chart, a graph of the heart. MARTHA GRAHAM Single lady, the man you want might not necessarily be the man you need. MARTHA MACHARIA Although beauty may be in the eye of the beholder, the feeling of being beautiful exists solely in t... MARTHA BECK Furthermore, they were constantly informed by all the camp authorities that they had been abandoned ... MARTHA GELLHORN Since our society equates happiness with youth, we often assume that sorrow, quiet desperation, and ... 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MARTHA GELLHORN Our ideas about love and attractiveness are so primal, our need for belonging so intense, that most ... MARTHA BECK It's long been accepted as fact that the availability of family planning services saves lives. W... MARTHA PLIMPTON Ten years ago, I still feared loss enough to abandon myself in order to keep things stable. I'd ... MARTHA BECK Western democracies exalt the ideal of social equality, but our economic system arguably emerged fro... MARTHA BECK Standards of beauty are arbitrary. Body shame exists only to the extent that our physiques don't... MARTHA BECK I think baking cookies is equal to Queen Victoria running an empire. There's no difference in ho... MARTHA STEWART No one else can take risks for us, or face our losses on our behalf, or give us self-esteem. No one ... MARTHA BECK I think I just stick to eating a well-rounded diet. I don't cut out anything; if I crave somethi... MARTHA HUNT Fact: From quitting smoking to skiing, we succeed to the degree we try, fail, and learn. Studies sho... MARTHA BECK My point is that perceptual bias can affect nut jobs and scientists alike. If we hold too rigidly to... MARTHA BECK