We learn best to listen to our own voices if we are listening at the same time to other women - whose stories, for all our differences, turn out, if we listen well, to be our stories also.
The United States can't impose democracies. We can't impose our will. The Russians found that out in Afghanistan.
Furthermore, America suffers not only from a lack of standards, but also not infrequently from a confusion or an inversion of standards.

