One of the most subversive institutions in the United States is the public library.
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A major part of love is commitment. If we are committed to someone, if I’m committed to loving you, then it’s not possible for me to fall out of love.
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One of the most subversive institutions in the United States is the public library.
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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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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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Feminism is for everybody.
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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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To love well is the task in all meaningful relationships, not just romantic bonds.
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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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Being oppressed means the absence of choices.
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What we cannot imagine cannot come into being.
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Genuine love is rarely an emotional space where needs are instantly gratified.
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To know love we have to invest time and commitment.
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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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The rage of the oppressed is never the same as the rage of the privileged.
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Love is an action, never simply a feeling.
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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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