To know love we have to invest time and commitment.
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Sometimes people try to destroy you, precisely because they recognize your power – not because they don’t see it, but because they see it and they don’t want it to exist.
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To know love we have to invest time and commitment.
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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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Every terrorist regime in the world uses isolation to break people’s spirits.
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To be truly visionary we have to root our imagination in our concrete reality while simultaneously imagining possibilities beyond that reality.
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One of the most subversive institutions in the United States is the public library.
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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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The one person who will never leave us, whom we will never lose, is ourself. Learning to love our female selves is where our search for love must begin.
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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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There is no life to be found in violence. Every act of violence brings us closer to death.
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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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Life-transforming ideas have always come to me through books.
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Once you do away with the idea of people as fixed, static entities, then you see that people can change, and there is hope.
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Death is with you all the time; you get deeper in it as you move towards it, but it’s not unfamiliar to you. It’s always been there, so what becomes unfamiliar to you when you pass away from the moment is really life.
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Love is really more of an interactive process. It’s about what we do not just what we feel. It’s a verb, not a noun.
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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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When we drop fear, we can draw nearer to people, we can draw nearer to the earth, we can draw nearer to all the heavenly creatures that surround us.
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