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What I Learned Is, We Have To Listen To Each Other, Even When We Don't Agree, Even When We Think We Hate Each Other. We Have To Listen To Each Others Narratives. Not Interrupt Defensively, Or With Hostility, But Really Try To Open Our Hearts And Listen With Empathy. I Learned So Much From That Meeting. It Was A Very Difficult Thing To Do And It Was One Of The Best Things That I Ever Did In My Life. Look What Scares You In The Face, And Try To Understand It. Empathy, I Have Learned, Is Revolutionary.

In The Hyper-sensitised Reality Of The Region In Which Any Criticism Of Israel Is Swiftly And Often Unfairly Branded As Anti-semitic, It Can Become Counterproductive To Inflame Rather Than Explain And This Means To Hear The Narratives Of Both Sides, To Articulate The Suffering On Both Sides, Not Just The Palestinians.

When Women Have Reclaimed Their Voices And Men Reclaimed Their Hearts, We Won't Be Invading Countries, We Won't Be Feeling That We Have The Right To Launch Preemptive Wars.

I Always Tried, In The Books I Wrote, To Make It Clear: Thin Is Not The Goal. But I Was Thin. So No Matter What I Said, The Subliminal Message Was, "you Have To Look A Certain Way." And I'm Not Happy About Playing Into That.

I Thought I Had Learned How To Have An Intimate Relationship. And I Thought I'd Learned How To Be Happy. Everybody Has Issues. For Me, The Challenge Is Intimacy, But I Really Didn't Start To Get That Until I Turned 60.