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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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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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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Being oppressed means the absence of choices.
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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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Genuine love is rarely an emotional space where needs are instantly gratified.
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I will not have my life narrowed down. I will not bow down to somebody else’s whim or to someone else’s ignorance.
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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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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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It’s in the act of having to do things that you don’t want to that you learn something about moving past the self. Past the ego.
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Feminism is for everybody.
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When we drop fear, we can draw nearer to people, we can draw nearer to the earth, we can draw nearer to all the heavenly creatures that surround us.
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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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Any society based on domination supports and condones violence.
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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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No black woman writer in this culture can write “too much”. Indeed, no woman writer can write “too much”. No woman has ever written enough.
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