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And the door into this emotion shift is empathy. As Jung said, emotion is the chief source of becoming conscious. There can be no transforming of lightness into dark of apathy into movement without emotion. Or as Leonard Cohen says, "Pay attention to the cracks because that's where the light gets in." You, young women of Barnard have not had to squeeze yourself into the corset of being cute or to muffle your opinions, but you haven't left campus yet. I'm just kiding. What you have had is the privilege of a very specific education. You are people who may able to draw on a completely different perspective to imagine a different possibility than women and men who went to coed schools.
這種情感轉變的原因就是移情作用。正如榮格所說，情感是意識的主要來源。要想將陽光開朗的人轉化成冷漠陰暗繼而做出冷酷行動的人，情感變化起著至關重要的作用。或者如萊昂納德·科恩所說：“要注意縫隙，因為光線就是從那兒進來的。”而你們，伯納德的年輕姑娘們，你們不用穿著緊身束胸衣來讓自己看起來更嬌小可愛，也不用壓抑自己的意見，因為你們還未離開校園。當然，這只是開個玩笑。你們的優勢是接受了非常特別的教育。你們將有著與男女同校的學生們截然不同的觀點，并且能夠創造出完全不同的可能性。
How this difference is going to really serve you it's hard to quantify now. It may take you 40 years like it did me to look back and analyze your advantage. But today is about looking forward into a world where so-called women's issues, human issues of gender inequality live at the very crux of global problems everyone suffers from poverty to the AIDS crisis to the rise in violent fundamentalist juntas, human trafficking and human rights abuses and you're going to have the opportunity and the obligation, by virtue of your providence, to speed progress in all those areas. And this is a place where even though the need is very great, the news is too. This is your time and it feels normal to you but really there is no normal. There's only change, and resistance to it and then more change.
目前我們很難得知這種差別將給你們帶來什么，也許你們會像我一樣，花40年的時間才能分析出你們的優勢所在。今天我們即將進入一個充斥著女性問題和男女不平等問題的世界，而這些問題隱藏在眾多全球問題之中，如貧窮、艾滋病危機、暴力原教旨主義團隊的崛起、販賣人口、踐踏人權等。你們將有機會且有義務，發揮你們敢于冒險的優勢，從而加速這些地區問題的處理進程。這些地區非常需要你們，新聞媒體也是。到你們發揮優勢的時候了，你們或許會覺得這很平凡，但其實這一點兒都不平凡。這里需要的是不斷改變、拒絕改變然后再次更多的改變。
