So research has shown, 有研究显示, if you look at people who live under two dollars a day -- 那些每天消费两美金以下的人-- one metric of poverty -- 这绝对是标准的贫困人群-- two percent of that take-home pay 他们百分之二的收入 goes to this
I actually realized once in Kosovo, 有一次我去了科索沃 when I watched a man break down, 看到一个男人倒下 that bullets are actually hardened tears, 忽然间想到,原来子弹就是硬化的泪珠啊 that when we don't allow men to have their girl
And that brings me to my first major 我写《半边天》的两个信条之一 of two tenets of "Half the Sky." 是从这里得到启发的。 And that is that 这一个信条就是 the central moral challenge 本世纪 of this century 最大的伦理道德挑战 is gender i
I believe that women and girls today have to partner in a powerful way with men with their fathers, 我相信今天的女人和女孩子要和男性成为伙伴和她们的父亲, with their sons, with their brothers, 她们的儿子,兄弟, with the plumbers, the r
I truly believe, if we can see one another as fellow human beings, then it becomes very difficult to tolerate atrocities like slavery. 我确实相信,当我们把他们当做同胞就会很难容忍奴役这样的暴行。 These images are not of issues. Th
And the Athabasca River drains downstream to a range of Aboriginal communities. 阿萨帕斯卡尔河下游即原住民聚集地。 In Fort Chippewa, the 800 people there, 奇普怀恩堡有800位居民, are finding toxins in the food chain, 食物链中含有毒性物质
The rags were unwrapped from a little girl whose body was massively burned. 打开裹着的布片是一个重度烧伤的女孩。 Again, 再一次, the eyes and hands of Avalokiteshvara. 观世音的眼睛和慈悲之手显现。 It was the young women, the health aids
They have nothing to compare it to. 没有任何比较。 When these villagers claimed their freedom, 如果这些人要为自己争取自由, the slaveholders burned down all of their houses. 奴隶主就烧掉他们所有的房子。 I mean, these people had nothing
Alison Bechdel is a comic book artist, 艾莉森·贝克德尔是一个漫画作家, and back in the mid-'80s, she recorded this conversation 在80年代中期,,她记录下了她和一个朋友 she'd had with a friend about assessing the movies that th
Compare apples to apples. Who's better? 比较治疗方案之间哪个更好, Why is that? 为什么更好? Five months ago, 五个月前, I led a workshop at the largest university hospital 我在北欧最大的医学院 in Northern Europe. 组织了一次专题讨论会。 They
Let me tell you about Mahabuba. 我要告诉你们马哈布巴的故事。 She lives in Ethiopia. 她住在埃塞俄比亚。 She was married against her will at age 13. 她13岁时被迫结婚。 She got pregnant, ran to the bush to have the baby, 她怀孕了,试图在灌木丛中生
So I think by now, everyone knows that we can't drive, 我在想,现在人们都知道我们不能开车 or women are not allowed to drive, in Saudi Arabia, 或者说,在沙特阿拉伯,妇女不允许开车 but maybe few know why. 但很少有人知道其中的缘由 Allow me to hel
So then, I ask, 我想问的是, what's in it for you? 你可以为此做些什么? You're probably asking that. Why should you care? 你可以正有这个疑问:这于我何干? I will just leave you with two things. 我只再说两点。 One is that research s
And what I want to suggest is that, 我想提出的一个想法是 having talked to girls, because I just finished a new book called 我们,都来跟女孩开展对话。 "I Am an Emotional Creature: The Secret Life of Girls Around the Wor
And you know, we have a society, a world, 你知道,我们的社会,这个世界, that is paralyzed by fear. 已经在恐惧中麻痹。 And in that paralysis, of course, 当然在这麻痹之中, our capacity for compassion is also paralyzed. 我们的慈悲心也受到麻痹。 T
We started talking about slavery, and really, 我们聊起了奴隶制度, I started learning about slavery, 而此时我才开始真正了解奴役的现实, for I had certainly known it existed in the world, 虽然我一直都知道世上奴隶制尚存, but not to such a degre
Compare this to 1939 with "The Wizard of Oz." 对比一下1939年的《绿野仙踪》。 How does Dorothy win her movie? 多萝西是如何取得胜利的? By making friends with everybody 她通过跟每个人都成为好朋友 and being a leader. 变成他们的领袖。 That&
I want to address the issue of compassion. 我想探讨慈悲心这个话题。 Compassion has many faces. 慈悲心有很多形态。 Some of them are fierce; some of them are wrathful; 有些是激烈的;有些是忿怒的; some of them are tender; some of them ar
You know, my favorite part of being a dad 身为父亲最让我开心的, is the movies I get to watch. 就是可以看自己喜欢的电影。 I love sharing my favorite movies with my kids, 我喜欢跟我的孩子分享我的电影, and when my daughter was four, 当我的女儿四岁
After another two hours of hiking, the winding trail abruptly ended at a clearing, and before us was a mass of holes that could fit into the size of a football field, 又走了两个小时蜿蜒的小径戛然而止,我们面前的空地上出现了一大片坑洞