The practice of love offers no place of safety. We risk loss, hurt, pain. We risk being acted upon by forces outside our control.
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Whenever women struggle with breast cancer and face better care than ever, that’s feminism.
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The practice of love offers no place of safety. We risk loss, hurt, pain. We risk being acted upon by forces outside our control.
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All our silences in the face of racist assault are acts of complicity.
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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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Whenever women struggle with breast cancer and face better care than ever, that’s feminism.
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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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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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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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To know love we have to invest time and commitment.
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Patriarchy has no gender.
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To love well is the task in all meaningful relationships, not just romantic bonds.
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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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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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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 political core of any movement for freedom in the society has to have the political imperative to protect free speech.
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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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