Eve Ensler: Embrace your inner girl

翻译人员: Tony Yet 校对人员: Jenny Yang

Namaste. Good morning.

早上好！

I'm very happy to be here in India.

很高兴今天来到印度。

And I've been thinking a lot about what I have learned

过去的十一年，我带着《阴道独白》和V-Day运动，

over these last particularly 11 years

走遍了全球，

with V-Day and "The Vagina Monologues,"

我最近也在认真的反思

traveling the world,

这段经历的意义

essentially meeting with women and girls across the planet

我遇到了来自全球各地的妇女和女孩

to stop violence against women.

她们都在进行着一场反对妇女暴力的抗争

What I want to talk about today

今天我要讲的，

is this particular cell,

就是这种特别的细胞

or grouping of cells, that is in each and every one of us.

或者说是一群细胞，我们每个人身上都有这个细胞

And I want to call it the girl cell.

我把它命名为“少女细胞”

And it's in men as well as in women.

它存在于女人身上，也存在于男人身上

I want you to imagine that this particular grouping of cells

我想大家可以想象一下这一群的细胞

is central to the evolution of our species

对于我们这一个物种的进化以及延续

and the continuation of the human race.

是起着核心意义的

And I want you imagine that at some point in history

设想一下，在历史上的某一个时刻

a group of powerful people invested in owning and controlling the world

那些通过投资想拥有和掌控世界的人

understood that the suppression of this particular cell,

他们觉得到对于女孩细胞的压制

the oppression of these cells,

以及压迫

the reinterpretation of these cells,

对这类细胞的重新的阐释

the undermining of these cells,

以及残害

getting us to believe in the weakness of these cells

会使我们相信这群细胞是没有力量的

and the crushing, eradicating, destroying,

对这些细胞的压制、消灭以及摧残

reducing these cells,

和消除

basically began the process of killing off the girl cell,

实际上就是在消灭女孩细胞

which was, by the way, patriarchy.

也恰恰是父权社会之特征

I want you to imagine that the girl is a chip

我希望大家可以把女孩想象成一个芯片

in the huge macrocosm of collective consciousness.

她是我们庞大的集体意识中的一个芯片

And it is essential to balance, to wisdom

她对于保持平衡、延续智慧

and to actually the future of all of us.

以及对于我们所有人的未来都非常重要

And then I want you to imagine that this girl cell

此外，我还希望大家可以想象一下的女孩细胞

is compassion,

它充满了怜悯

and it's empathy, and it's passion itself,

同情，激情，

and it's vulnerability,

它脆弱

and it's openness, and it's intensity,

也开放而强烈

and it's association, and it's relationship,

它的连结与关系

and it is intuitive.

和它的直觉性

And then let's think how compassion informs wisdom,

让我们再设想一下，同情是如何启迪了智慧

and that vulnerability is our greatest strength,

脆弱恰恰可以成为我们最伟大的力量¾

and that emotions have inherent logic,

情感也有内在的逻辑

which lead to radical, appropriate, saving action.

它会带来激进的、恰当的，同时是拯救性的行动

And then let's remember that we've been taught

此外，让我们不要忘记

the exact opposite by the powers that be,

我们一直以来被灌输的都恰恰是相反的论调

that compassion clouds your thinking,

他们说，同情心会迷惑你的思考

that it gets in the way,

阻碍你的思考

that vulnerability is weakness,

脆弱即劣势

that emotions are not to be trusted,

情感不可信赖

and you're not supposed to take things personally,

对于万事万物，你都不应当凭个人情感去处理

which is one of my favorites.

这个恰恰是我最喜欢的一句话

I think the whole world has essentially

我认为，整个世界都

been brought up not to be a girl.

是在一种“你不应当成为女孩”的教条下成长起来的

How do we bring up boys? What does it mean to be a boy?

我们是怎么把男孩抚养大的？作为男孩以为着什么？

To be a boy really means not to be a girl.

它只意味着 不要成为一名女孩。

To be a man means not to be a girl.

成为男人就是不应当像女孩。

To be a woman means not to be a girl.

成为女人也意味着不应成为女孩。

To be strong means not to be a girl.

坚强也意味着不是女孩。

To be a leader means not to be a girl.

成为领导也意味着不可成为女孩。

I actually think that

我认为，

being a girl is so powerful

成为女孩是非常有力量的

that we've had to train everyone not to be that.

我们还需要训练人们不要成为那样呢

(Laughter)

（笑声）

And I'd also like to say that the irony

我想说的是，讽刺在于，

of course, is that denying girl,

我们否认女孩，

suppressing girl, suppressing emotion,

压制女孩，压制情感，

refusing feeling has lead thus here.

这一切把我们带到了这里。

Where we have now come to live in a world where

而我们现今所处的世界，

the most extreme forms of violence,

又恰恰是充满了极端形式的暴力

the most horrific poverty,

我们见证着史上最严重的贫穷，

genocide, mass rapes,

种族屠杀、大规模的强奸，

the destruction of the Earth, is completely out of control.

地球破坏，这些都完全脱离了我们的控制

And because we have suppressed our girl cells

因为我们压制了我们的女孩细胞

and suppressed our girl-ship,

也压制了我们的女孩特质

we do not feel what is going on.

我们根本就体会不到这正在发生的一切

So, we are not being charged with

所以，也没有人要我们对

the adequate response to what is happening.

正在发生的这一切负责

I want to talk a little bit about

我今天就希望讲讲这一点

the Democratic Republic of Congo.

首先是民主刚果共和国

For me, it was the turning point of my life.

对我来说，那是一个人生的转折点

I have spent a lot of time there in the last three years.

过去三年，我在那里度过了相当长的一段时间

I feel up to that point I had seen a lot in the world,

在那以前，我觉得自己领略过人间万象

a lot of violence.

各种的暴力

I essentially lived in the rape mines of the world for the last 12 years.

事实上，过去12年里我生活在世界许多强奸重灾区中

But the Democratic Republic of Congo

但是，民主刚果

really was the turning point in my soul.

确实成为了我心灵的转折点

I went and I spent time

我那时候去的是一个叫

in a place called Bukavu

布卡武的地方

in a hospital called the Panzi Hospital,

我就在当地的潘伊医院

with a doctor who was as close to a saint as any person I've ever met.

我遇到了一个医生，他是我见过的最接近圣人的一位

His name is Dr. Denis Mukwege.

他的名字是登尼斯·穆维格

In the Congo, for those of you who don't know,

假如你还不知道，在过去的12年 里，

there has been a war raging for the last 12 years,

刚果民主共和国一直在经历内战

a war that has killed nearly six million people.

那场战争使得六百万人丧命

It is estimated that somewhere between 300,000 and 500,000 women

据估计，有三十万到五十万的妇女

have been raped there.

在战争中被强暴

When I spent my first weeks at Panzi hospital

我在潘伊医院第一周的时候

I sat with women

我和那里的妇女坐在一起

who sat and lined up every day to tell me their stories.

她们会坐起来，一个一个的跟我讲故事

Their stories were so horrific,

她们的故事是如此的让人感到恐怖

and so mind-blowing and so on the other side of human existence,

让人震撼不已，展现了人类生存状况得另一面，

that to be perfectly honest with you, I was shattered.

说实话， 听了那些故事， 我心都碎了。

And I will tell you that what happened

我慢慢的告诉大家一些故事吧

is through that shattering,

正是因为那种被撕裂的感觉

listening to the stories of eight-year-old girls who had their insides eviscerated,

那种聆听八岁的女孩将心底之故事全盘托出的经历

who had guns and bayonets and things shoved inside them

——她们的身体都曾遭枪或长剑的凌辱

so they had holes, literally, inside them

她们的身体上的的确确是存在这样那样的洞

where their pee and poop came out of them.

她们的排泄物都是从那里排出的

Listening to the story of 80-year-old women

还有聆听八十岁的老妇人告诉我

who were tied to chains and circled,

她们曾被绑在铁链上，串成一圈儿，

and where groups of men would come and rape them periodically,

一群男人然后就不定时的进来，轮奸她们

all in the name of economic exploitation

这一切，都是在经济扩张的名义下进行的

to steal the minerals so the West can have it and profit from them.

大公司开掘矿藏，这样他们就可以收获渔利

My mind was so shattered.

我的内心被撕裂了

But what happened for me is that that shattering

但对于我来说，那种撕裂反而

actually emboldened me

使得我变得更加坚强

in a way I have never been emboldened.

那也是从来没有过的

That shattering, that opening of my girl cell,

我的女孩细胞也由此而打开

that kind of massive breakthrough of my heart

我的心灵获得巨大突破

allowed me to become more courageous, and braver,

我的心灵获得巨大突破，都使我变得更勇敢

and actually more clever

也变得更加聪明

than I had been in the past in my life.

这是以前从未有过的

I want to say that I think the powers that be

另外我想说，有一种必须让人知道的力量，

know that empire-building

其实， 感情是阻碍帝国大厦成为帝国大厦的

is actually -- that feelings get in the way of empire-building.

帝国大厦，

Feelings get in the way of the mass acquisition of the Earth,

良知会阻挡人们疯狂挖掘地球资源

and excavating the Earth, and destroying things.

掏空地球，毁灭万物。

I remember, for example, when my father,

我记得，我的父亲，他是非常非常暴力的一个人

who was very, very violent, used to beat me.

他常打我

And he would actually say, while he was beating me,

他 在打我的时候，会这么跟我说，

"Don't you cry. Don't you dare cry."

“你为什么不哭？你不敢哭吗？”

Because my crying somehow exposed his brutality to him.

因为只要我哭，他也许就会感到自己的暴力

And even in the moment he didn't want to be reminded

即便当时他并不想

of what he was doing.

被提醒他正在做什么

I know that we have systematically annihilated the girl cell.

我只知道，我们的社会系统性地歼灭了女孩细胞

And I want to say we've annihilated it in men as well as in women.

不单在男人身上，也在女人身上

And I think in some ways

我认为，

we've been much harsher to men

在某种程度

in the annihilation of their girl cell.

人们更残忍地对待男人身上的“女孩细胞”

(Applause)

（掌声）

I see how boys have been brought up, and I see this across the planet:

我看到男孩子是如何被养大的，全世界都是这样

to be tough, to be hardened,

家长都会希望自己的孩子变得更壮、更坚强

to distance themselves from their tenderness, to not cry.

远离脆弱，不要哭泣

I actually realized once in Kosovo,

有一次我去了科索沃

when I watched a man break down,

看到一个男人倒下

that bullets are actually hardened tears,

忽然间想到，原来子弹就是硬化的泪珠啊

that when we don't allow men to have their girl self

当我们不允许男人怀有女孩细胞

and have their vulnerability, and have their compassion,

不允许他们任何的脆弱或同情

and have their hearts, that they become hardened and hurtful

不允许发自内心的情感。这时候，他们就会变得冷漠、容易伤害别人

and violent.

甚至是走向暴力

And I think we have taught men to be secure

我们知道，男人往往在不安全时

when they are insecure,

说他们自己是安全的

to pretend they know things when they don't know things,

不知道的时候假装自己知道

or why would we be where we are?

或者假装知道为什么弄到这步天地？

To pretend they're not a mess when they are a mess.

即便事情一团乱麻也装得井井有条

And I will tell you a very funny story.

告诉你们一件很好笑的事。

On my way here on the airplane, I was walking up and down the aisle of the plane.

我是坐飞机过来的，我在飞机的过道上走来走去

And all these men, literally at least 10 men,

我看到一群男人，确切说至少有十个

were in their little seats watching chick flicks.

坐在他们的一方小天地里看言情片

And they were all alone, and I thought, "This is the secret life of men."

每个人都在单打独斗，我想“这就是男人的秘密生活吧”

(Laughter)

（笑声）

I've traveled, as I said,

我去过很多地方

to many, many countries,

很多个国家

and I've seen, if we do what we do to the girl inside us

我的所见所闻让我想到，

then obviously it's horrific to think

假如我们按照我们对待自身女孩细胞的方式，去对待现实中的女孩

what we do to girls in the world.

那将会是多么悲惨的一个世界

And we heard from Sunitha yesterday,

昨天，苏妮塔和克薇塔

and Kavita about what we do to girls.

也在这里讲述了她关于女孩的故事

But I just want to say that

我只是想告诉大家

I've met girls with knife wounds and cigarette burns,

我见过那些遭受了刀伤以及烟头的女孩子

who are literally being treated like ashtrays.

人们真的是把她们当成烟灰缸来对待

I've seen girls be treated like garbage cans.

还有人会把女孩子当成垃圾场

I've seen girls who were beaten by their mothers

做母亲的会打自己的女儿

and brothers and fathers and uncles.

做兄弟的、父亲的、叔叔的就更不用说

I've seen girls starving themselves to death in America

我看到一些女孩子在美国一些貌似

in institutions to look like some idealized version of themselves.

可以帮助她们变成理想中的自我的机构中饿死

I've seen that we cut girls and we control them

我看到对女孩行割礼，对女孩进行控制

and we keep them illiterate,

不让女孩上学

or we make them feel bad about being too smart.

或者是，一旦女孩子变得聪明，我们就让她们感到内疚

We silence them. We make them feel guilty

我们让她们变得沉默

for being smart. We get them to behave,

让她们感到聪明是坏事

to tone it down, not to be too intense.

让她们不要宣张，不要激烈

We sell them, we kill them as embryos,

我们还贩卖女孩，甚至是在胎儿的时候就将其杀死

we enslave them, we rape them.

我们还把女孩当奴隶，我们强暴女孩

We are so accustomed to robbing girls

我们甚至对此习以为常

of the subject of being the subjects of their lives

认为女孩不该成为自己生命之主宰

that we have now actually objectified them

我们于是将女孩当成了没有情感的东西

and turned them into commodities.

拿到市场上去卖

The selling of girls is rampant across the planet.

环顾整个地球，贩卖女孩的行为日渐猖獗，

And in many places they are worth less than goats and cows.

在有些地方，女孩子的价值甚至不如牛羊

But I also want to talk about the fact that

此外，假如我们认为

if one in eight people on the planet

这个地球上有八分之一是

are girls between the ages of 10 to 24,

10到24岁的女孩，

they are they key, really, in the developing world,

可以肯定，她们是人类的未来

as well as in the whole world, to the future of humanity.

对发展中国家和发达国家一样的道理

And if girls are in trouble because they face systematic disadvantages

女孩身陷各种麻烦，是由于社会系统性地将她们置于不利地位

that keep them where society wants them to be,

使得她们无法担当本可以担当的角色

including lack of access to healthcare,

包括缺乏获得基本医疗的渠道

education, healthy foods,

缺乏教育和健康食品

labor force participation.

参加劳动大军

The burden of all the household tasks

家务劳动的重担

usually falls on girls and younger siblings,

大多由女孩和未达劳动年龄的儿童被迫承担

which ensures that they will never overcome these barriers.

这些也使得她们无法摆脱社会的枷锁

The state of girls, the condition of girls,

女孩子的境况

will, in my belief -- and that's the girl inside us

这包括我们身体内的女孩以及现实的女孩

and the girl in the world -- determine whether

——在我看来——

the species survives.

将直接决定我们这个物种的存亡。

And what I want to suggest is that,

我想提出的一个想法是

having talked to girls, because I just finished a new book called

我们 都来跟女孩开展对话。

"I Am an Emotional Creature: The Secret Life of Girls Around the World,"

我最近写 了一本书，叫《我是一个情感动物：全球女孩秘密故事》

I've been talking to girls for five years,

过去五年，我一直在跟女孩对话

and one of the things that I've seen is true everywhere

不管去到那里，一样事情是肯定的

is that the verb that's been enforced on girl

即人们谈论到女孩的时候，所用的动词

is the verb "to please."

这就是“取悦”

Girls are trained to please.

人们训练女孩去“取悦”他人

I want to change the verb.

我想改变这个动词

I want us all to change the verb.

我希望大家都可以改变这个动词

I want the verb to be "educate,"

我希望将其改为“教育”

or "activate," or "engage,"

或者“鼓动”、“介入”

or "confront," or "defy," or "create."

或“对抗”或“反抗”或“创造"

If we teach girls to change the verb

假如我们能够教育女孩改变这个动词

we will actually enforce the girl inside us

我们也会让我们体内的女孩变得更加有力

and the girl inside them.

让女孩自身的女孩特质变得更加有力量

And I have to now share a few stories

接下来就跟大家分享几个故事

of girls I've seen across the planet

都是我在全世界看到的一些女孩 的故事

who have engaged their girl,

她们都曾鼓舞了其他女孩

who have taken on their girl in spite of

都曾在种种障碍之下

all the circumstances around them.

成功的活出了一个完整的女孩

I know a 14-year-old girl in the Netherlands,

我认识一个14岁的荷兰女孩子

for example, who is demanding that she take a boat

她要自己坐一艘小船

and go around the entire world by herself.

独自环游世界

There is a teenage girl who just recently

还有，最近一个 少女

went out and knew that she needed 56 stars

她要在自己的右脸

tattooed on the right side of her face.

做56颗星星状的文身

There is a girl, Julia Butterfly Hill,

还有一个叫朱莉亚·希尔的女孩

who lived for a year in a tree

她在一棵树上住了一年

because she wanted to protect the wild oaks.

因为她想保护野生的橡树

There is a girl who I met 14 years ago in Afghanistan

还有，14年前，我在阿富汗认识了一个女孩

who I have adopted as my daughter

我把她收养了，将她当成自己的女儿

because her mother was killed. Her mother was a revolutionary.

她母亲是一位革命家，被人杀死了

And this girl, when she was 17 years old,

而这个女孩，当她还只是17岁的时候

wore a burqa in Afghanistan,

在阿富汗， 就穿着一件布卡

and went into the stadiums

走到会场里，

and documented the atrocities that were going on towards women,

记录了那里发生的针对妇女的血腥暴力

underneath her burqa, with a video.

在布卡底下，是她的摄像机。

And that video became the video that went out all over the world

那个视频也传遍了世界

after 9/11 to show what was going on in Afghanistan.

向人们揭示了911之后发生在阿富汗的一些事实

I want to talk about Rachel Corrie

还有雷切尔·科莉

who was in her teens when she stood in front of an Israeli tank

她十几岁的时候，就曾走到一辆以色列坦克跟前

to say, "End the occupation."

说，“停止占领。”

And she knew she risked death and she was literally gunned down

她知道这是在送命，并且遭到了连番枪击

and rolled over by that tank.

最后坦克从她身上开过

And I want to talk about a girl that I just met recently

还有，我最近认识的一个女孩

in Bukavu, who was impregnated by her rapist.

那是在布卡维，这个女孩因为被强暴而怀孕

And she was holding her baby.

她把孩子抱在怀里

And I asked her if she loved her baby.

我问她，是否喜欢这个孩子

And she looked into her baby's eyes and she said,

她看着孩子的眼睛，说

"Of course I love my baby. How could I not love my baby?

“那当然。我怎么可能不喜爱自己的孩子呢？

It's my baby and it's full of love."

这确实是我的孩子啊，他的身上流淌着爱。"

The capacity for girls to overcome situations

女孩那种对抗困境并且

and to move on levels, to me, is mind-blowing.

穷而益坚的精神着实让我感动

There is a girl named Dorcas, and I just met her in Kenya.

还有个叫多卡丝的女孩，我是在肯尼亚见到她的

Dorcas is 15 years old,

那时候多卡丝15岁

and she was trained in self-defense.

她学习自卫

A few months ago she was picked up on the street

几个月前，

by three older men.

她在路上被三个男人劫持了，

They kidnapped her, they put her in a car.

他们绑架了她，把她丢到车上

And through her self-defense, she grabbed their Adam's apples,

她勇敢地自卫，抓住他们的喉咙

she punched them in the eyes

用拳头打他们的眼睛

and she got herself free and out of the car.

终于得以逃脱那班人的魔爪，逃离了那辆车

In Kenya, in August,

今年8月，在肯尼亚

I went to visit one of the V-Day safe houses for girls,

我参观了一个专门为女孩开设的V日安全避难所

a house we opened seven years ago

那是我们7年前设立的

with an amazing woman named Agnes Pareyio.

跟我一起设立这个避难所的还有一个叫艾格尼丝的妇女

Agnes was a woman who was cut when she was a little girl,

艾格尼丝在她还很小的时候就被强迫割礼

she was female genitally mutilated.

她的女性生殖器被阉割了。

And she made a decision as many women do across this planet,

后来她作出了一个决定——世界很多地方的妇女也作出了同样的决定，

that what was done to her would not be enforced and done

那就是

to other women and girls.

发生在她身上的不应再次发生在其他妇女和少女身上

So, for years Agnes walked through the Rift valley.

多年来，艾格尼丝行走在瑞夫山谷间

She taught girls what a healthy vagina looked like,

她告诉少女健康的阴道是怎样的

and what a mutilated vagina looked like.

被割掉的阴道又是怎样的

And in that time she saved many girls. And when we met her

她拯救了许多少女的生命。当我见到她的时候

we asked her what we could do for her,

我问她，我们可以为她做点什么

and she said, "Well, if you got me a Jeep I could get around a lot faster."

她说，“假如我有一辆吉普车，我将可以到达更多的地方”

So, we got her a Jeep. And then she saved 4,500 girls.

于是我们就为她买了一辆吉普车。她一共拯救了4500条生命。

And then we asked her, "Okay, what else do you need?"

后来我们又问她，“你还需要点什么？”

And she said, "Well, now, I need a house."

她说，“我需要一所房子”

So, seven years ago Agnes built the first V-Day safe house

于是，七年前，艾格尼丝开始建设第一间V日安全中心

in Narok, Kenya, in the Masai land.

那是在肯尼亚的那洛克

And it was a house where girls could run away,

那是逃难的少女的庇护所

they could save their clitoris, they wouldn't be cut,

她们可以逃脱让自己的阴蒂被割的命运

they could go to school.

还有机会上学

And in the years that Agnes has had the house,

艾格尼丝建起了这间房子后

she has changed the situation there.

她改变了当地的状况

She has literally become deputy mayor.

并且当上了副市长

She's changed the rules.

改变了了法规

The whole community has bought in to what she's doing.

整个社区也认同她的做法

When we were there she was doing a ritual

我们去到那里的时候，她正在举行一个仪式

where she reconciles girls, who have run away, with their families.

让那些离家出走的女孩与家人重新团聚

And there was a young girl named Jaclyn.

其中有一个叫Jaclyn的女孩

Jaclyn was 14 years old and she was in her Masai family

她14岁以前和家人住在马塞

and there's a drought in Kenya.

那一年，肯尼亚发生了旱灾

So cows are dying, and cows are the most

牛是她们最为值钱的财产

valued possession.

也陆续死去

And Jaclyn overheard her father

Jaclyn听到她父亲跟别人商量

talking to an old man about

希望把她卖掉

how he was about to sell her for the cows.

换来一头牛

And she knew that meant she would be cut.

她知道那意味着自己要被割

She knew that meant she wouldn't go to school.

意味着自己无法上学

She knew that meant she wouldn't have a future.

也不可能有一个好的未来

She knew she would have to marry that old man, and she was 14.

不得不嫁给那个老人，而她只有14岁

So, one afternoon, she'd heard about the safe house,

有一天，她听到有庇护所的消息

Jaclyn left her father's house

于是她决定离家出走

and she walked for two days, two days

在马塞的土地上

through Masai land.

徒步两天

She slept with the hyenas. She hid at night.

夜里要跟鬣狗睡在一起，因为她要找庇护的地方

She imagined her father killing her on one hand,

她一方面想到父亲会杀死她

and Mama Agnes greeting her,

另一方面又想到艾格尼丝会欢迎她

with the hope that she would greet her when she got to the house.

也希望自己可以安全抵达庇护所

And when she got to the house she was greeted.

最后达到那里的时候，她真的受到了欢迎

Agnes took her in, and Agnes loved her,

艾格尼丝把她带到屋里，艾格尼丝爱她

and Agnes supported her for the year.

艾格尼丝一直支持她

She went to school and she found her voice,

后来她去上学，也找到了自我

and she found her identity, and she found her heart.

找到了自我认同以及学会关爱自己

Then, her time was ready

当她认为时机成熟的时候，

when she had to go back to talk to her father

她回到家里找父亲

about the reconciliation, after a year.

跟父亲讲和，那是一年后

I had the privilege of being in the hut

而我有幸在她们一家恢复和平、顺利团聚的时候

when she was reunited with her father and reconciled.

在她们家见证那一幕

In that hut, we walked in,

我们走进那间小草屋

and her father and his four wives were sitting there,

她的父亲和四个妻子坐在那里

and her sisters who had just returned because

她的姐妹们也回来了，

they had all fled when she had fled,

她们也跟她一同离家出走的

and her primary mother, who had been beaten

还有她的母亲，

in standing up for her with the elders.

她曾因站在她的一边而被打

When her father saw her and saw who she had become,

当她的父亲看到她，看到她

in her full girl self,

变为一个成熟的少女时

he threw his arms around her and broke down crying.

他拥抱着Jaclyn，放声大哭

He said, "You are beautiful. You have grown into a gorgeous woman.

他说，“你真美，你变成一个美丽的姑娘了，

We will not cut you.

我们不会给你行割礼了

And I give you my word, here and now,

我现在就承诺

that we will not cut your sisters either."

也不会对你的妹妹行割礼。“

And what she said to him was,

她对父亲说，

"You were willing to sell me for four cows,

“那时候，为了四头牛，一只小牛以及一些地毯

and a calf and some blankets.

你愿意把我卖出去

But I promise you, now that I will be educated

但是，我可以向你保证，现在的我接受了教育

I will always take care of you,

我会一直照顾你

and I will come back and I will build you a house.

我会回来，给你盖房子

And I will be in your corner for the rest of your life."

直到你离开人世，我会一直陪伴你。”

For me, that is the power of girls.

我认为，这就是少女的力量

And that is the power of transformation.

也是转变的力量

I want to close today

我想以我的书里头的一段话

with a new piece from my book.

作为今天这个演讲的总结

And I want to do it tonight

这个演讲是献给在座所有人的

for the girl in everybody here.

内心少女的

And I want to do it for Sunitha.

也希望将此献给苏妮塔

And I want to do it for the girls that Sunitha talked about yesterday,

献给苏妮塔昨天谈论过的那些少女

the girls who survive, the girls who can become somebody else.

那些有幸存活下来的，有机会改变自我的少女

But I really want to do it for each and every person here,

也希望将此献给这里的每一个人

to value the girl in us,

希望大家可以珍视我们的内心少女

to value the part that cries,

珍视泪珠

to value the part that's emotional,

珍视情感的力量

to value the part that's vulnerable,

珍视脆弱的部分

to understand that's where the future lies.

并且明白，那是我们的未来之所系

This is called "I'm An Emotional Creature."

这段话标题是“我是一个情感动物”

And it happened because I met a girl in Watts, L.A.

它源于我在洛杉矶遇到的一个女孩

I was asking girls if they like being a girl,

我那时候到处问女孩子，她们是否喜欢做女孩

and all the girls were like, "No, I hate it. I can't stand it.

所有的女孩都说，“不，我讨厌这个，我不能接受这个，

It's all bad. My brothers get everything."

太糟糕了。我的哥哥总是得到所有的东西。“

And this girl just sat up and went, "I love being a girl.

而这个女孩则站起来说：“我喜欢做女孩，

I'm an emotional creature!"

因为我是一个情感动物！”

(Laughter)

（笑声）

This is for her:

这是献给她的：

I love being a girl.

我热爱当女孩。

I can feel what you're feeling

我可以体会你的情感

as you're feeling inside the feeling before.

体会你刚才体会到的情感

I am an emotional creature.

我是一个情感动物

Things do not come to me as intellectual theories

认识这个世界，我靠的不是知识理论

or hard-pressed ideas.

或抽象的概念

They pulse through my organs and legs and burn up my ears.

而是像脉冲那样在我的器官里，在我的腿里，我的耳朵里流动

Oh, I know when your girlfriend's really pissed off,

哦，我懂得你的女朋友的烂心情

even though she appears to give you what you want.

虽然她表面还是对你百依百顺

I know when a storm is coming.

我能感知暴雨来临

I can feel the invisible stirrings in the air.

我还能感知那看不见的空气的震动

I can tell you he won't call back. It's a vibe I share.

我可以告诉你，她不会给你 打电话了。因为我跟她是在同一波段上 的。

I am an emotional creature.

我是一个情感动物。

I love that I do not take things lightly.

我不会只是看得到事情的表面。

Everything is intense to me,

任何事情，对我而言，都是紧张的

the way I walk in the street, the way my momma wakes me up,

不管是在街上走，是妈妈从睡梦里将我叫醒

the way it's unbearable when I lose, the way I hear bad news.

是我面对失败，是我听到坏消息的那种震动

I am an emotional creature.

我是一个情感动物

I am connected to everything and everyone. I was born like that.

我跟所有人所有事都连接在一起。我天生就是这样的。

Don't you say all negative

不要是说这不好那不好

that it's only only a teenage thing,

那是小孩子的做法

or it's only because I'm a girl.

也不要说，那是因为我是女孩

These feelings make me better.

这些反而让我高兴

They make me present. They make me ready. They make me strong.

让我快乐，让我感到实在，让我感到强大

I am an emotional creature.

我是一个情感动物

There is a particular way of knowing.

那是一种特别的认知方式

It's like the older women somehow forgot.

有点像老妇人的健忘

I rejoice that it's still in my body.

她还活在我体内，我因此而高兴

Oh, I know when the coconut's about to fall.

我知道椰子什么时候会掉到地上

I know we have pushed the Earth too far.

我知道我们对地球伤害太多

I know my father isn't coming back,

我知道我的父亲不会再世

and that no one's prepared for the fire.

我知道没有人准备好接受战火

I know that lipstick means more than show,

还有唇膏不仅仅是为了展示

and boys are super insecure,

我知道男孩也时常惴惴不安

and so-called terrorists are made, not born.

所谓的恐怖主义分子是后天的，非天生的

I know that one kiss

我知道，一个亲吻

could take away all my decision-making ability.

可以消解我的一切判断力

(Laughter)

（笑声）

And you know what? Sometimes it should.

知道吗？有时候确实应该这样

This is not extreme. It's a girl thing,

这不是极端。这是女孩会做的事情

what we would all be if the big door inside us flew open.

假如我们内心的那道大门得以打开，这也是我们每个人都能做到的

Don't tell me not to cry, to calm it down,

不要告诉我停止哭泣，冷静

not to be so extreme, to be reasonable.

不要走极端，要理性

I am an emotional creature.

我是一个情感动物

It's how the earth got made, how the wind continues to pollinate.

这正是地球的运作方式啊，这也是风的运行规律啊

You don't tell the Atlantic Ocean to behave.

你不可能指挥太平洋怎样做

I am an emotional creature.

我是一个情感动物

Why would you want to shut me down or turn me off?

为何让我停下，让我掉头？

I am your remaining memory.

我是你残留的记忆

I can take you back.

我可以把你带回过去

Nothing's been diluted.

没有被冲淡，

Nothing's leaked out.

也没有一点滴漏

I love, hear me, I love

我爱，听我讲，我爱

that I can feel the feelings inside you,

我可以体会你心底的情感

even if they stop my life,

即使那样会停止我的生命

even if they break my heart,

即使那样会打碎我的心

even if they take me off track,

即使那样会把我偏离正轨

they make me responsible.

但这会让我变得有责任感

I am an emotional, I am an emotional,

我是有情感的，我是一个

incondotional, devotional creature.

有情感的、无条件全情投入的动物

And I love, hear me,

听我讲，我爱

I love, love, love being a girl.

我爱，爱，爱当一个女孩

Can you say it with me?

听到了吗？

I love, I love, love, love

我爱- 爱-爱-爱

being a girl!

当一个女孩！

Thank you very much.

谢谢大家！

(Applause)

（掌声）