The rage of the oppressed is never the same as the rage of the privileged.
BELL HOOKSLove 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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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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I think life experiences are different for people who know what they want as children.
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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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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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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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Genuine love is rarely an emotional space where needs are instantly gratified.
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To love well is the task in all meaningful relationships, not just romantic bonds.
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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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Love is a combination of care, commitment, knowledge, responsibility, respect and trust.
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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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Whenever women struggle with breast cancer and face better care than ever, that’s feminism.
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My idea of a delicious time is to read a book that is wonderful. But the ruling passion of my life is being a seeker after truth and the divine.
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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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Class is more than money. Class is also about knowledge.
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Feminism is for everybody.
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