If we give our children sound self-love, they will be able to deal with whatever life puts before them.
BELL HOOKSJustice 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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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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Honesty and openness is always the foundation of insightful dialogue.
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The function of art is to do more than tell it like it is-it’s to imagine what is possible.
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Patriarchy has no gender.
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Love is an action, never simply a feeling.
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Love is a combination of care, commitment, knowledge, responsibility, respect and trust.
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To know love we have to invest time and commitment.
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Whenever women struggle with breast cancer and face better care than ever, that’s feminism.
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I began writing a book on love because I felt that the United States is moving away from love.
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If any female feels she need anything beyond herself to legitimate and validate her existence, she is already giving away her power to be self-defining, her agency.
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There will be no mass-based feminist movement as long as feminist ideas are understood only by a well-educated few.
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I think the Women’s movement has had a major impact on everybody’s lives in our nation and in the world as a whole.
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Knowing how to be solitary is central to the art of loving. When we can be alone, we can be with others without using them as a means of escape.
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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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It’s in the act of having to do things that you don’t want to that you learn something about moving past the self. Past the ego.
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