Nonviolent actions are by their nature androgynous. In them the two impulses that have long been treated as … - Barbara Deming

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You should go," I breathed. "You should definitely go. " "Go here?" His mouth was on my shoulder. "Or here?" It moved up my neck.

Barbara Deming

Nonviolent actions are by their nature androgynous. In them the two impulses that have long been treated as distinct, 'masculine' and 'feminine,' the impulse of self-assertion and the impulse of sympathy, are clearly joined; the very genius of nonviolence, in fact, is that it demonstrates them to be indivisible, and so restores human community.

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