The Importance of Multiple Selves

Audrey Lord: I am constantly being encouraged to pluck out some one aspect of myself and present this as the meaningful whole. But this is a destructive and fragmenting way to live, she says. "My fullest concentration of energy is available to me only when I integrate all of the parts" She adds that it's really hard to kind of draw a line around the self because there are so many different sections in your body.