Telling Stories Never Fails To Produce Good

Girls Developed Eating Disorders When Our Culture Developed A Standard Of Beauty That They Couldn't Obtain By Being Healthy. When Unnatural Thinness Became Attractive, Girls Did Unnatural Things To Be Thin.

The Fullness Of Life Comes From An Identity Built On Giving And On Joy.

We Are A Small, Interconnected World; That We Are All Safe Or None Of Us Are; That We Are All Well Cared For Or All At Risk.

When Europeans Arrived On This Continent, They Blew It With The Native Americans. They Plowed Over Them, Taking As Much As They Could Of Their Land And Valuables, And Respecting Almost Nothing About The Native Cultures. They Lost The Wisdom Of The Indigenous Peoples-wisdom About The Land And Connectedness To The Great Web Of Life...we Have Another Chance With All These Refugees. People Come Here Penniless But Not Cultureless. They Bring Us Gifts. We Can Synthesize The Best Of Our Traditions With The Best Of Theirs. We Can Teach And Learn From Each Other To Produce A Better America.

Girls Have Long Been Evaluated On The Basis Of Appearance And Caught In Myriad Double Binds: Achieve, But Not Too Much, Be Polite,but Be Yourself, Be Feminine And Adult; Be Aware Of Our Cultural Heritage, But Don't Comment On The Sexism. . . . Girls Are Trained To Be Less Than Who They Really Are. They Are Trained To Be What The Culture Wants Of Its Young Women, Not What They Themselves Want To Become.