To me, the model of success is not linear. Success is completing the full circle of yourself.
We can tell our values by looking at our checkbook stubs.
Women and men are equal human beings.
learning must travel the distance from head to heart.
That's a huge fear for middle-class women. It's not so much a fear for poor women, because poor women have always assumed that they are going to have to support themselves. It's middle-class women who have this fantasy that somebody else is going to support them.
People are quite clear in viewing nuns as the servants and the teachers and the supporters of the poor. You contrast that with the fact that the Vatican did virtually nothing about long-known pedophiles, and it's just too much.