To be truly visionary we have to root our imagination in our concrete reality while simultaneously imagining possibilities beyond that reality.
BELL HOOKSThe 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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Love is a combination of care, commitment, knowledge, responsibility, respect and trust.
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Every terrorist regime in the world uses isolation to break people’s spirits.
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What we cannot imagine cannot come into being.
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Class is more than money. Class is also about knowledge.
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Giving generously in romantic relationships, and in all other bonds, means recognizing when the other person needs our attention. Attention is an important resource.
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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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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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What we do is more important than what we say or what we say we believe.
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If we want a beloved community, we must stand for justice.
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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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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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All the men I fall for seem to have a commitment problem.
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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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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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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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