I want her to know that she is fully human, that she is no different in ability and potential from the boys she goes to school with, and that her gender does not limit her.
This is why we cannot be fully human in organizations that have few rituals and little space for stillness, silence, sadness.
For Christ to be fully human means that Jesus cognitively developed over time just like any child maturing to adulthood does, and it also means that he was made of flesh as vulnerable as ours.
Beauvoir refuses any political program that demands we deny our bodily possibilities in order to be fully human and proclaims that bodies and bodily difference are integral to projects of selfhood, and not merely accidental contingencies of a rational and disembodied mind.
We need people who are holding up a mirror and reminding us - like Mandela did - that to be fully human is to embrace the ideals that are sacred not just in many constitutions around the world, but in tenets that inform families, friendships, and even communities.
Without this fear I would get to be fully human and trust that life is a giant experiment in which there is an abundance of lessons for me to learn if I can let go of needing to get it all "right".
We learn that to be fully human means to be comfortable with the discomfort of never fully knowing, the discomfort of doubt.
"Something that's fully human or that's part mouse -- which would you rather have as a patient?" said R. Scott Greer, chief executive of Abgenix.
To convince just one village, let alone a whole country or culture, that a woman is fully human, and that humans possess inalienable rights, is a project that could take lifetimes.
It is now known that all biologic drugs, even those that are fully human, are immunogenic, that is, they have the ability to induce an immune response in the treated patient.
