As long as women are using class or race power to dominate other women, feminist sisterhood cannot be fully realized.
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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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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Class is more than money. Class is also about knowledge.
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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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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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Life-transforming ideas have always come to me through books.
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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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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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Love is an action, never simply a feeling.
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The people I love, I’m committed to loving for the rest of my life.
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Genuine love is rarely an emotional space where needs are instantly gratified.
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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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Patriarchy has no gender.
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I think Black people need to take self-esteem seriously.
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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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