To love well is the task in all meaningful relationships, not just romantic bonds.
BELL HOOKSWhenever women struggle with breast cancer and face better care than ever, that’s feminism.
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What we do is more important than what we say or what we say we believe.
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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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Every terrorist regime in the world uses isolation to break people’s spirits.
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Any society based on domination supports and condones violence.
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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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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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I began writing a book on love because I felt that the United States is moving away from love.
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The greatest movement for social justice our country has ever known is the civil rights movement and it was totally rooted in a love ethic.
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Love is an action, never simply a feeling.
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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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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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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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The people I love, I’m committed to loving for the rest of my life.
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One of the most subversive institutions in the United States is the public library.
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I believe that it is impossible for two individuals not committed to their own and each other’s well being to sustain a healthy and enduring relationship.
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