Giving generously in romantic relationships, and in all other bonds, means recognizing when the other person needs our attention. Attention is an important resource.
BELL HOOKSWhen 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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I think life experiences are different for people who know what they want as children.
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Every terrorist regime in the world uses isolation to break people’s spirits.
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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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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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Genuine love is rarely an emotional space where needs are instantly gratified.
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There will be no mass-based feminist movement as long as feminist ideas are understood only by a well-educated few.
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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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You can only realize change if you live simply. Once people want enormous excess, you can hardly do social change.
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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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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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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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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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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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As long as women are using class or race power to dominate other women, feminist sisterhood cannot be fully realized.
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If you do not know what you feel, then it is difficult to choose love; it is better to fall. Then you do not have to be responsible for your actions.
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