As long as women are using class or race power to dominate other women, feminist sisterhood cannot be fully realized.
BELL HOOKSWhen we choose to love, we choose to move against fear, against alienation and separation. The choice to love is a choice to connect, to find ourselves in the other.
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I will not have my life narrowed down. I will not bow down to somebody else’s whim or to someone else’s ignorance.
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Any society based on domination supports and condones violence.
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Love is an action, never simply a feeling.
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All the men I fall for seem to have a commitment problem.
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The rage of the oppressed is never the same as the rage of the privileged.
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Forgiveness and compassion are always linked: how do we hold people accountable for wrongdoing and yet at the same time remain in touch with their humanity enough to believe in their capacity to be transformed?
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Patriarchy has no gender.
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My idea of a delicious time is to read a book that is wonderful. But the ruling passion of my life is being a seeker after truth and the divine.
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You can only realize change if you live simply. Once people want enormous excess, you can hardly do social change.
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The greatest movement for social justice our country has ever known is the civil rights movement and it was totally rooted in a love ethic.
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Feminism is for everybody.
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The rage of the oppressed is never the same as the rage of the privileged.
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When we choose to love, we choose to move against fear, against alienation and separation. The choice to love is a choice to connect, to find ourselves in the other.
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Being oppressed means the absence of choices.
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Justice demands integrity. It’s to have a moral universe – not only know what is right or wrong but to put things in perspective, weigh things. Justice is different from violence and retribution; it requires complex accounting.
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