People Are Their Principles. (Short Essay)

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The film star, Robert Redford, passed away recently.. He starred in one of my favourite films of all time:'The Way We Were,' with co-star Barbra Streisand.

There is a moment in the film, when Katie (Streisand) says to Hubbell (Redford) -

"People are their principles."

It is not a plea, it's a truth and it lands like a quiet bell.

For those of us who live intuitively - who read the emotional undercurrents and speak in symbols - this line feels like home. It reminds us that our principles are not just ideas. They are the architecture of our presence. They shape how we speak, how we love.

Katie's character is often described as, ' difficult.'  She's too political, too passionate, too principled. But what if that's not difficulty - but clarity? What if her refusal to dilute herself is the very thing that makes her intuitive?

In my work with women and thoughtful readers, I often see this same tension. The intuitive woman who senses everything, yet struggles to be fully seen. Who holds space for others, yet feels too much when she speaks her truth, who is told she's intense, when she's simply being vivid?

Principled intuition isn't rigid - it's rooted. It means knowing what matters, even when it's inconvenient. It means choosing emotional honesty over ease. It means saying, " I won't pretend not to care."

I want to honour this kind of clarity. To celebrate it, because people are their principles, and for intuitive women, those principles often live beneath the surface -felt before they are named, known before they are spoken.

In the film, Katie and Hubbell part, not because they lack love, but because they live by different inner codes. The way they ARE - how they move through the world - what they honour, what they won't betray - is what ultimately defines them.

I hope these short essays will offer a space that honours and celebrates the way we are. Not the way we are expected to be, or the way we've been told to soften - but the vivid, principled, emotionally intelligent presence that lives within us. The part that listens deeply, speaks clearly, and refuses to disappear.

This is the way we are.

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