The practice of love offers no place of safety. We risk loss, hurt, pain. We risk being acted upon by forces outside our control.
BELL HOOKSJustice 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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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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If we give our children sound self-love, they will be able to deal with whatever life puts before them.
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I feel that my environment reflects my belief in the grace and art and elegance of living simply.
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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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Life-transforming ideas have always come to me through books.
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If any female feels she need anything beyond herself to legitimate and validate her existence, she is already giving away her power to be self-defining, her agency.
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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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If we want a beloved community, we must stand for justice.
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Life-transforming ideas have always come to me through books.
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Any society based on domination supports and condones violence.
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I will not have my life narrowed down. I will not bow down to somebody else’s whim or to someone else’s ignorance.
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Genuine love is rarely an emotional space where needs are instantly gratified.
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What we cannot imagine cannot come into being.
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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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