Education Quote by Joy Page

She’s pushing back on our favorite cultural shortcut: sorting life into clean binaries so we can feel oriented, righteous, and safe. “People desire” frames the habit as emotional, not logical. We don’t merely think in polarities; we want them. Dark/light, ugly/beautiful, good/evil, right/wrong, inside/outside: the list escalates from aesthetics to morality to belonging, exposing how quickly taste hardens into judgment, and judgment into exclusion.

The clever move is the partial concession. “Polarities serve us in our learning and growth” acknowledges why we cling to categories: they’re training wheels for identity, ethics, and survival. That generosity keeps the line from sounding like scolding; it reads like someone who’s watched audiences and industries (especially Hollywood) demand simple types: ingénue/vamp, hero/villain, beautiful/ugly. An actress knows how markets reward legible roles, and how those roles flatten real people.

Then the pivot: “but as souls we are all” - an unfinished sentence that functions like an open door. The ellipsis-by-absence invites the listener to supply the ending (“one,” “connected,” “complex”), turning the quote into a small collaboration rather than a lecture. Subtext: the binaries are useful but not ultimate; they’re tools, not truths. Contextually, it lands in a 20th-century spiritual-humanist register that’s suspicious of rigid moralism while still taking ethics seriously. It’s not relativism; it’s a plea for permeability - for letting the “outside” back in, and admitting the shadow into the self.