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.
BELL HOOKSYou can only realize change if you live simply. Once people want enormous excess, you can hardly do social change.
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Love is an action, never simply a feeling.
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Forgiveness and compassion are always linked: how do we hold people accountable for wrongdoing and yet at the same time remain in touch with their humanity enough to believe in their capacity to be transformed?
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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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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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Patriarchy has no gender.
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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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The rage of the oppressed is never the same as the rage of the privileged.
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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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The rage of the oppressed is never the same as the rage of the privileged.
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One of the most subversive institutions in the United States is the public library.
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To know love we have to invest time and commitment.
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Honesty and openness is always the foundation of insightful dialogue.
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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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You can only realize change if you live simply. Once people want enormous excess, you can hardly do social change.
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Living simply makes loving simple.
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