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.
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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If we give our children sound self-love, they will be able to deal with whatever life puts before them.
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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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What we do is more important than what we say or what we say we believe.
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Honesty and openness is always the foundation of insightful dialogue.
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Being oppressed means the absence of choices.
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Love is an action, never simply a feeling.
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The people I love, I’m committed to loving for the rest of my life.
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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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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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Whenever women struggle with breast cancer and face better care than ever, that’s feminism.
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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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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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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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To know love we have to invest time and commitment.
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There is no life to be found in violence. Every act of violence brings us closer to death.
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One of the most subversive institutions in the United States is the public library.
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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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Love is a combination of care, commitment, knowledge, responsibility, respect and trust.
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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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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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The rage of the oppressed is never the same as the rage of the privileged.
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What we cannot imagine cannot come into being.
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Since loving is about knowing, we have more meaningful love relationships when we know each other and it takes time to know each other.
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The political core of any movement for freedom in the society has to have the political imperative to protect free speech.
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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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