It's human to hear stories and to know how people live and to imagine how that is for them. It's very interdependent!

A man was the sum of his limits; freedom only made him see how much so.

A white person was by definition somebody. Other people needed, across their hearts, one steel rib.

Chinese language tends to be quick, economical. To know what people are saying, you always need to know what the context is.

It's a matter of whether you see the self as fundamentally in relationship to other selves or not - whether you see the boundary between self and the world as relatively permeable, which makes you "interdependent" (collectivist) in outlook, or relatively impermeable, which makes you "independent" (individualistic).

Whatever I do in life, I'm almost always aware that there's another way to do it.

Many women tend toward the interdependent end of things, we tend to see ourselves in relationship to others to a far greater degree than men.