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.
BELL HOOKSThe 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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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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Feminism is for everybody.
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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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Living simply makes loving simple.
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To love well is the task in all meaningful relationships, not just romantic bonds.
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The one person who will never leave us, whom we will never lose, is ourself. Learning to love our female selves is where our search for love must begin.
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One of the most subversive institutions in the United States is the public library.
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I think life experiences are different for people who know what they want as children.
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What we do is more important than what we say or what we say we believe.
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Knowing how to be solitary is central to the art of loving. When we can be alone, we can be with others without using them as a means of escape.
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Once you do away with the idea of people as fixed, static entities, then you see that people can change, and there is hope.
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The rage of the oppressed is never the same as the rage of the privileged.
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Whenever women struggle with breast cancer and face better care than ever, that’s feminism.
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Being oppressed means the absence of choices.
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When we face pain in relationships our first response is often to sever bonds rather than to maintain commitment.
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