Knowing how to be solitary is central to the art of loving. When we can be alone, we can be with others without using them as a means of escape.
BELL HOOKSIf we want a beloved community, we must stand for justice.
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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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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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Patriarchy has no gender.
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Love is an action, never simply a feeling.
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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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Genuine love is rarely an emotional space where needs are instantly gratified.
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Life-transforming ideas have always come to me through books.
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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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No black woman writer in this culture can write “too much”. Indeed, no woman writer can write “too much”. No woman has ever written enough.
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To love well is the task in all meaningful relationships, not just romantic bonds.
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The people I love, I’m committed to loving for the rest of my life.
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Living simply makes loving simple.
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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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Life-transforming ideas have always come to me through books.
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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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