The Women’s Alliance at my college asked me to give a talk on “women’s bodies,” and this is what I shared with students.
“Here’s the thing. Every quality of our lives – everything that we are and everything that we will be and do – is going to play out in our bodies. In the Western World, there is a classic philosophical split – codified for us by Rene Descartes – between our bodies and our minds, or our bodies and our spirits, but as a point of concrete experience, all of who we are is in our bodies.
Our thoughts, our ideas, our wild flights of imagination, our creative impulses: these are our brains, that twisted mass of spongy gray neurons and blood. […]
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