All the men I fall for seem to have a commitment problem.
BELL HOOKSTo love well is the task in all meaningful relationships, not just romantic bonds.
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When we face pain in relationships our first response is often to sever bonds rather than to maintain commitment.
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Love is a combination of care, commitment, knowledge, responsibility, respect and trust.
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Whenever women struggle with breast cancer and face better care than ever, that’s feminism.
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If you do not know what you feel, then it is difficult to choose love; it is better to fall. Then you do not have to be responsible for your actions.
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Genuine love is rarely an emotional space where needs are instantly gratified.
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Any society based on domination supports and condones violence.
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Since loving is about knowing, we have more meaningful love relationships when we know each other and it takes time to know each other.
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The rage of the oppressed is never the same as the rage of the privileged.
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We judge on the basis of what somebody looks like, skin color, whether we think they’re beautiful or not. That space on the Internet allows you to converse with somebody with none of those things involved.
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The people I love, I’m committed to loving for the rest of my life.
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What we do is more important than what we say or what we say we believe.
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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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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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Living simply makes loving simple.
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Being oppressed means the absence of choices.
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