When we face pain in relationships our first response is often to sever bonds rather than to maintain commitment.
BELL HOOKSIf 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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You can only realize change if you live simply. Once people want enormous excess, you can hardly do social change.
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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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I began writing a book on love because I felt that the United States is moving away from love.
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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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Love is a combination of care, commitment, knowledge, responsibility, respect and trust.
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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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Life-transforming ideas have always come to me through books.
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All our silences in the face of racist assault are acts of complicity.
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Since loving is about knowing, we have more meaningful love relationships when we know each other and it takes time to know each other.
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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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What we do is more important than what we say or what we say we believe.
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Life-transforming ideas have always come to me through books.
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To know love we have to invest time and commitment.
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There is no life to be found in violence. Every act of violence brings us closer to death.
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Whenever women struggle with breast cancer and face better care than ever, that’s feminism.
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