Love is an action, never simply a feeling.
BELL HOOKSSometimes 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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Honesty and openness is always the foundation of insightful dialogue.
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Whenever women struggle with breast cancer and face better care than ever, that’s feminism.
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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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Patriarchy has no gender.
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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 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 rage of the oppressed is never the same as the rage of the privileged.
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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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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 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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Feminism is for everybody.
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Death is with you all the time; you get deeper in it as you move towards it, but it’s not unfamiliar to you. It’s always been there, so what becomes unfamiliar to you when you pass away from the moment is really life.
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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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Class is more than money. Class is also about knowledge.
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