Life-transforming ideas have always come to me through books.
BELL HOOKSSince 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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If we give our children sound self-love, they will be able to deal with whatever life puts before them.
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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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The rage of the oppressed is never the same as the rage of the privileged.
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Genuine love is rarely an emotional space where needs are instantly gratified.
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Class is more than money. Class is also about knowledge.
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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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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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Any society based on domination supports and condones violence.
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Love is an action, never simply a feeling.
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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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Whenever women struggle with breast cancer and face better care than ever, that’s feminism.
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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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You can only realize change if you live simply. Once people want enormous excess, you can hardly do social change.
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Feminism is for everybody.
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As long as women are using class or race power to dominate other women, feminist sisterhood cannot be fully realized.
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