I will not have my life narrowed down. I will not bow down to somebody else’s whim or to someone else’s ignorance.
BELL HOOKSGenuine love is rarely an emotional space where needs are instantly gratified.
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Genuine love is rarely an emotional space where needs are instantly gratified.
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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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If we give our children sound self-love, they will be able to deal with whatever life puts before them.
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Feminism is for everybody.
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What we cannot imagine cannot come into being.
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I think life experiences are different for people who know what they want as children.
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When we face pain in relationships our first response is often to sever bonds rather than to maintain commitment.
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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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Life-transforming ideas have always come to me through books.
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Love is a combination of care, commitment, knowledge, responsibility, respect and trust.
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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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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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My idea of a delicious time is to read a book that is wonderful. But the ruling passion of my life is being a seeker after truth and the divine.
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It’s in the act of having to do things that you don’t want to that you learn something about moving past the self. Past the ego.
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Being oppressed means the absence of choices.
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