A major part of love is commitment. If we are committed to someone, if I’m committed to loving you, then it’s not possible for me to fall out of love.
BELL HOOKSWe 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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Genuine love is rarely an emotional space where needs are instantly gratified.
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Love is really more of an interactive process. It’s about what we do not just what we feel. It’s a verb, not a noun.
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What we do is more important than what we say or what we say we believe.
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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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Patriarchy has no gender.
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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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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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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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One of the most subversive institutions in the United States is the public library.
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Giving generously in romantic relationships, and in all other bonds, means recognizing when the other person needs our attention. Attention is an important resource.
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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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All the men I fall for seem to have a commitment problem.
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Feminism is for everybody.
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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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Any society based on domination supports and condones violence.
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The function of art is to do more than tell it like it is-it’s to imagine what is possible.
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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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I began writing a book on love because I felt that the United States is moving away from love.
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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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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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To know love we have to invest time and commitment.
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Being oppressed means the absence of choices.
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Honesty and openness is always the foundation of insightful dialogue.
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The people I love, I’m committed to loving for the rest of my life.
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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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