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.
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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You can only realize change if you live simply. Once people want enormous excess, you can hardly do social change.
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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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Class is more than money. Class is also about knowledge.
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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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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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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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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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To love well is the task in all meaningful relationships, not just romantic bonds.
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I feel that my environment reflects my belief in the grace and art and elegance of living simply.
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The people I love, I’m committed to loving for the rest of my life.
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Honesty and openness is always the foundation of insightful dialogue.
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I think life experiences are different for people who know what they want as children.
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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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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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