The longer we listen to one another - with real attention - the more commonality we will find in all our lives. That is, if we are careful to exchange with one another life stories and not simply opinions.
“Every man who is high up loves to think that he has done it all himself; and the wife smiles, and lets it go at that.”
“But as for activism, my parents did what they could, given the constraints, but were never involved in the causes I think of when I think of activists.”