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Virginia: You know—let me have your hand. (Virginia holds out her hand, looking at him, her voice soft and warm.) How do you feel about that? (Glen hesitates before taking her hand and shaking it.) One of the nicest things that anybody can do is to share what they feel. And I feel you've done that for me. It doesn't necessarily mean that we're together in what we're doing, because I don't know if I understand completely what you're saying, and I don't know if you understand me completely. But I really like the fact that you've taken the trouble, you have taken the interest to be able to share this with me. Can we talk further about it?
Glen: I'd sure like to. (applause)
Virginia: OK. Now, that's another one. Now, there's a difference, too. You notice I offered him my hand. He didn't give it to me right away. Now I'm going to tell you what I did. I really mean what I say—always you're better off when people can tell you where they are. And what I did—I let my body give even an extra bit of message of warmth to him. (She is looking at Glen directly, gesturing from herself to him at gut level.) Because I also know that he's scared—Don is scared. So there is a whole lot that has to happen for him to understand the rumors that are going on.
I'm on the board of a battered women's refuge. The women get so guilty about what has happened. And they haven't been able to raise themselves enough, so they talk to other people as a way of trying to validate what has happened to them. (Virginia turns back to Glen.) So the point of it is this. Your talking to me has very little to do with the organization per se; it has to do with your scaredness, and so on. And if I can find no way to make a contact with you that is going to help us to come together, (her hands gesture out to him and back to her as she looks directly at him) then we're not going to be able to do anything.
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