To know love we have to invest time and commitment.
BELL HOOKSAs long as women are using class or race power to dominate other women, feminist sisterhood cannot be fully realized.
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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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Every terrorist regime in the world uses isolation to break people’s spirits.
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Patriarchy has no gender.
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Whenever women struggle with breast cancer and face better care than ever, that’s feminism.
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All the men I fall for seem to have a commitment problem.
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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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Honesty and openness is always the foundation of insightful dialogue.
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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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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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The greatest movement for social justice our country has ever known is the civil rights movement and it was totally rooted in a love ethic.
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Being oppressed means the absence of choices.
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Living simply makes loving simple.
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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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The rage of the oppressed is never the same as the rage of the privileged.
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When we drop fear, we can draw nearer to people, we can draw nearer to the earth, we can draw nearer to all the heavenly creatures that surround us.
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