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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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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We judge on the basis of what somebody looks like, skin color, whether we think they’re beautiful or not. That space on the Internet allows you to converse with somebody with none of those things involved.
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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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Patriarchy has no gender.
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I think life experiences are different for people who know what they want as children.
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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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Life-transforming ideas have always come to me through books.
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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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Feminism is for everybody.
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To know love we have to invest time and commitment.
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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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Class is more than money. Class is also about knowledge.
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The rage of the oppressed is never the same as the rage of the privileged.
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To love well is the task in all meaningful relationships, not just romantic bonds.
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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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