"...Pauline, who is sparing with words, said after clearing her throat, "Offer your experience as your truth." There was a short silence. When we started talking again, we didn't talk objectively, and we didn't fight. We went back to feeling our way into ideas, using the whole intellect not half of it, talking with one another, which involves listening. We tried to offer our experience to one another. Not claiming something: offering something."
Bryn Mawr Commencement Address (1986) from Dancing at the Edge of World: Thoughts on Words, Women, Places by Ursula le Guin
The whole feminist commencement address is available online to read at Bryn Mawr. I'm jumping around the essays and poems in Dancing at the Edge of the World but I'm really enjoying it so far.
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