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TED英语演讲：勇敢，是度过难关的唯一方法
在这篇感人的演讲中，。艾许说，度过难关唯一的方法，就是要开romised myself, the next time, I would say something. I would have that hard conversation.
So within a matter of weeks, it happens again.
Are you a boy or are you a girl?
Familiar silence, but this time I'm ready, and I am about to go all Women's Studies 101 on this table. (Laughter) I've got my Betty Friedan quotes. I've got my Gloria Steinem quotes. I've even got this little bit from Vagina Monologues I'm going to do. So I take a deep breath and I look down and staring back at me is a four-year-old girl in a pink dress, not a challenge to a feminist duel, just a kid with a question: Are you a boy or are you a girl?
So I take another deep breath, squat down to next to her, and say, Hey, I know it's kind of confusing. My hair is short like a boy's, and I wear boy's clothes, but I'm a girl, and you know how sometimes you like to wear a pink dress, and sometimes you like to wear your comfy jammies? Well, I'm more of a comfy jammies kind of girl.
And this kid looks me dead in the eye, without missing a beat, and says, My favorite pajamas are purple with fish. Can I get a pancake, please? (Laughter) And that was it. Just, Oh, okay. You're a girl. How about that pancake?
It was the easiest hard conversation I have ever had. And why? Because Pancake Girl and I, we were both real with each other.
So like many of us, I've lived in a few closets in my life, and yeah, most often, my walls happened to be rainbow. But inside, in the dark, you can't tell what color the walls are. You just know what it feels like to live in a closet. So really, my closet is no different than yours or yours or yours. Sure, I'll give yo