Robert Fulghum, who wrote I...
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Robert Fulghum, who wrote All I Really Need to Know I Learned in Kindergarten, tells how he once taped up alongside his bathroom mirror a picture of a woman who is not his wife. Every morning as he stood there shaving, he gazed at the picture of that woman.
Fulghum was not being unfaithful. The picture is of a small, elderly, bent-over woman wearing an Indian sari. Various dignitaries clad in tuxedos, evening gowns, and rich jewelry surround her. It is Mother Teresa of Calcutta, receiving the Nobel Peace Prize.
Fulghum said he keeps that picture there to remind him that, more than the president of any nation, more than any pope, more than any chief executive officer of a major corporation, that woman had authority -- and she had that authority because she was a servant.
Fulghum was not being unfaithful. The picture is of a small, elderly, bent-over woman wearing an Indian sari. Various dignitaries clad in tuxedos, evening gowns, and rich jewelry surround her. It is Mother Teresa of Calcutta, receiving the Nobel Peace Prize.
Fulghum said he keeps that picture there to remind him that, more than the president of any nation, more than any pope, more than any chief executive officer of a major corporation, that woman had authority -- and she had that authority because she was a servant.
